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A85173	A faithful discovery of a treacherous design of mystical Antichrist displaying Christs banners, but attempting to lay waste Scriptures, churches, Christ, faith, hope, &c. and establish paganism in England. Seasonably given in a letter to the faithful in and near to Beverley. Containing an examination of many doctrines of the people called Quakers in Yorkshire, together with a censure of their way, and several items concerning the designs of God, Satan, and men, in these things, recommended to the consideration of them who are in good earnest for Christ.	Pomroy, John.; Feake, Christopher, fl. 1645-1660.; Glisson, Paul.; Kellet, Joseph.	1653 (1653)	Wing F568; Thomason E699_13; ESTC R202092	45,783	67

reading hearing the Scriptures is mans duty faith and understanding is the gift of God yet ordinarily in this way Prov. 2. 4 5. But to conclude Concerning the real word of Prophecy which signifyed beforehand of the sufferings of Christ and the glory which should follow that was in due time fullfilled in its kind the same Apostle saith 2 Pet. 1. 17 19. 1. It s more sure than a voice from the excellent gl ry at least to others and more argumentative 2. More to be attended than the words of one risen from the dead Luke 16. 31. 3. Nay our Lord Jesus himself said that if they believed not Moses Writings he did not expect they would believe his Words Iohn 5. 47. Moreover they affirm That this Light the same which they say is in every one that cometh into the world is the anointing from the Father that they need not teach one another HOw great a progresse O thou most holy will thine Enemy and the Truths make if this doctrine were imbraced 1. To break down the wall about the enclosed Garden the Church and make Common the choicest favours of the King of Saints who endeared himself of old to his people by the promise of his Spirit wherby we know that he dwelleth in us and we in him because he hath given us of his Spirit John 16. 7. 1 John 4 13. This is the Spirit which the world cannot receive because it seeth him not neither knoweth him Joh. 14. 17. This is the Spirit of Promise promised to believers wherby they are or shall be sealed unto the Day of Redemption of the Saints who are the Purchased Possession from the Power of the grave unto the Perfection of Liberty and Glory It being in the mean time the Earnest of our inheritance which is reserved in heaven for us Is not this the oil wherewith our Lord and Saviour was anointed above his fellowes who are his brethren partakers from his fullnesse Psal. 45. 7. John 1. 16. Ephes. 4. 7. 2. Moreover how daringly doth this attempt if it were possible to pull the seven stars Rev. 1. out of the hand of Christ and how easily doth this conclude against Apostleship Pastorship Doctorship Eldership c. admonitions exhortations reproofs and that with a high hand although God hath set them in his Church for the perfecting of the Saints and edifying of the Body and that untill every member be added to his Church and every member already in it be grown unto the fullnesse of the measure of the stature of Christ Eph. 4. 11 12. 1 Cor. 12. 28. Let the wise judge whether this doctrine teach not one member to say to another I have no need of thee But if any rejoice in the Covenant of Promise we also will blesse the name of the Lord who hath established the New Covenant upon better promises than the old Covenant For to the people whom he taketh to himself he will give not only a Law without but in their hearts also and whereas in the dispensation Mosaicall there were many Brethren in that outward ministration who knew not God yet in the new Covenant there is not a Brother need say to his brother Know the Lord as if he was ignorant of the Lord though the least of all Saints Yet surely if this promise exclude all outward Teachers why should Christ give Teachers to his Saints and Peter stir up their minds their pure minds by way of remembrance and endeavour by his Epistle that after his decease they might have the Gospell in remembrance and John write to Believers of all ages in the Church that they abide in Christ notwithstanding that they had the anointing in them All which expresseth the unspeakable love of Christ and care toward his People knowing their weaknesses which favour man would reject to his own losse 3. But as if it were a small thing O you that fear the Lord thus courteously to rob and friendly to betray you this doctrine proceeds if the Authors understand it to cut off at once all instruction and reproof of Enemies and ungodly and states not a Brother but an Enemy and child of ignorance twice over to have no need that any man say unto him Know the Lord because it saith every man that commeth into the world is enlightned by the light which is the Anointing which as these Doctrinists say excludes all need of outward Teaching If any man say The Spirit convinceth the world of sin therefore every one in the world hath the workings of the spirit It is answered The holy anointing oil is not poured upon mans flesh nor the stranger but on the Tabernacle Altar c. Aaron and his sonnes which makes this Mercy peculiar to the Saints the holy Priesthood and not common or like the convincing operations of the Spirit which do not appropriate such a Person or consecrate him to the Lord Besides this Conviction doth not exclude the Teachings of man but rather implyes it For it convinceth of unbelief which is not the sinne of them that have not heard Romans 10. ver. 14. He will say then Have they not heard Is not the word nigh them yea in their hearts verse 8. Most true it is in the hearts of them that believe yea verily their sound is gone forth into all the earth even Theirs who were preachers of Glad tidings v. 14 15. who carried the report which was not believed of some v. 16. even the word of God v. 17. which being received by the Gentiles became a provocation of the Jewes to jealousie because it was first offered to them and they received it not v. 19. it pleased therefore the Lord of All to send forth tidings of Grace into all nations and his Spirit to convince the world contradistinguished to the Jewes Rom. 11. 15. of sinne because when they hear they believe not untill convinced that it is their sin not to believe in Christ or submit to him accept him as King Priest and Prophet when offered to them It might seem strange to you dearly beloved should we say that these discoursings on their part are but a blind to veil what is farther intended It may be their confessions will sometimes give you it that you and all men ought to believe in Christ in them and that they perish for not believing that Christ is manifested in their flesh and that you are saved by the dying rising c. of Christ or the light in you and not by any Christ without you To the evidencing of which in part be pleased to hear them using the word of the Scriptures saying The Kingdome of God is within you and this they say of and to all the children of this world TO which we answer 1. That the Kingdome of Heaven the Jewes expected to come as the Kingdomes of the Earth and Men but it came with no such pomp or shew wherefore the Pharisees were

check chide and call home the wandrings of his people to make his grace exceeding glorious Thirdly Neverthelesse though we are tyed to all Means yet hath the Lord tyed himself to none so as that he may not in his Soveraignty withhold mercy untill his own time But if power alway go with light what shall we think of Paul who found the Law of his Members warring and leading him captive against his Will though he gave up himself to the Law of his inward man Rom. 7. 14. unto the end Surely the topstone of the whole frame of Spiritual graces and privileges is not laid untill the resurrection and second coming of Jesus Christ which is cleared in the Scriptures calling it our Adoption as it was written of Christ and of the day of his resurrection Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee also making our Life to be hidden untill then stating the life of a Christian now to be in Faith and hope which looks beyond death and charactering a true Saint by his waiting looking for and loving the appearing of Christ Heb. 10. 37 38. 1 Thess. 1. 10. Heb. 9. 28. Blessed are they who are the children of God by Faith in Christ Jesus though all their life time they be found groaning under the burden of sin buffetings of Satan and are in heavinesse if need be through various Temptations which are to make them vile and little in their own eyes knowing what maketh them to differ And that Jesus might perfect his strength in their weaknesse and his Grace in their guiltinesse And might trie their faith which shall be found unto praise and glory at the appearing of Christ the hope of which is as an Anchor to their souls which Saves them from sinking under their pressures and perishing in their stormes Then shall they that now die not having received the Promises which are sure to all the seed receive them and the Crown of righteousnesse at that day who fight the good fight finish their course and keep the faith This putteth not the day of the Lord far from us as some charge us no more than did Abraham Isaac and Jacob who saw the Promises a farre off and because they apprehended themselves not likely to inherit them in this life on earth therefore they confessed themselves Pilgrims and strangers whose portion was not in this life Heb. 11. 16. Neverthelesse as we look for compleat victory over all and the last of enemies Death at the resurrection so we are to hasten to it 2 Pet. 3. 12. in all holy conversations and godlinesses if by any means we might attain unto the resurrection Phil. 3. 10 11. by being as like Christ as may be who in that he died he died unto sin and the world and in that he liveth he liveth unto God though for the changing our vile corruptible mortal natural bodies like unto his glorified body the Apostle looked not for it nor his Crown until the coming of Christ Phil. 3. 21. But that we may take the foxes and the little foxes that spoil our vines which began to have tender grapes let 's yet make search and see how for the driving on the great design of overthrowing the Gospel as administred by Man and weakning the Authority of the holy Scriptures they seek to perswade all Men that that light in them is the Gospel and the sure Word of Prophecy to which they would do well to take heed until the day dawn and the day-star arise in their hearts It may be the Accuser of the Brethren will say we are zealous in our own cause though our Consciences tell us we ought to be angry yet without sinne when we see the way of life stopped up from the children of men which we doubt not to demonstrate to the seeing eye in reference to the Gospel it self and its ministration First then to manifest that this assertion puts men quite beside the way of Salvation We pray you to consider that if it be not the voice of the Gospel but of the Law mans heart who hath no more light than the eternal Word enlightens him with as every one that cometh into the world then who so bids him seek righteousness peace and life in attendance and obedience thereto puts man beside the way of life Rom. 9. 32. Rom. 4. 5 14. Gal. 2. 16 21. But that it is the voice of the Law and not the Gospel hath been proved before by sundry couched Arguments as that Scripture and experience makes the moral Law the Counterpane of the Law ingraven in every mans Conscience Also that Man naturally establisheth his own self-righteousnesse which is of the Law Beside the book of Natural Conscience is the Creation and Providence which administer in themselves to the discursive faculty the knowledge of the Godhead as binding Man to glorifie God as God not as Father Saviour or Redeemer Should we here grant that he that walks up to the Law or light of Nature shall have the light of Grace or Gospel revealed to him although we never read nor knew the Gospel bestowed on any Person or People upon that account or the Spirit received by the works of the Law yet we do more than doubt whether ever there stood before the throne of Glory or shall any such who without Gospel-light and grace did obey the Law please God or rightly approach unto him for we know that faith in Jesus as dying for us and rising for our justification is the first stone in the spiritual building and the Fountain of Love Man loving God because he is first beloved of God without which mans specious works most upright worships are abhominations threapt on the Lord Wherefore the Lord builds not on the first Adams foundations or Covenant of works on which the higher man builds the more losse he suffers when he is brought to Christ but layes a Foundation in Sion even Christ in the Law of Faith or Covenant of Grace and thereupon builds all things new Secondly Moreover we add that if this Position take away the true and proper ministration of the Gospel it must needs shut up the Kingdom of God from Men For what are good tidings if they be not told But to the best of our understandings by this Assertion is the ministration of the Gospel taken away For we do not know that ever the gospel was published or promised to be made known without the ministration of man or without hearing But rather as Jesus Christ said I am with you in teaching to the end of the world so intended he teaching to be to the end also it was the Apostles care that the truth might be committed from one to another from age to age 2 Tim. 2 2. likewise the promise is Isa. 59. the last verse that the Word should not depart from the mouth of Jesus Christ and his seed and his seeds seed for ever and that the

this we own as the Power of his resurrection and fellowship of his sufferings but we detest that doctrine that destroyes the Atonement in his blood and the Truth of his humanity and his personall body besides his mysticall the Church so taking away the representation of God in the Mediatour the Man Christ which a believing eye fixeth on and leaves the Mind which is far from knowing God in any competent certainty out of Christ to seek about for God as individuum vagum or something he knows not what and at it last may becomes to this Notion God is in all and all in God blasphemously adding that he is no other than the world or what he is in the world clothing himself with changeable appearances and so the mind proceeds untill it be spoiled with vain and blasphemous Philosophy We conclude that it is a sign of a rotten heart and a roving head to be loathing plain Scripture and longing after curious speculations and witty allusions though in this we prejudice not the modest searchings of those whose hearts are it may be more than ordinarily prepared and senses exercised to discern into the veiled Truths of the Scriptures as Heb. 12. 13 14. compared with Heb. 7. c. Moreover they admonish that we wait in silence untill God open our Mouthes WE answer if that were the intent of this Admonition to shew to man his dependance on God and that he especially that waits on the Word and Prayer take his goades and nailes from the chief Shepheard and pray in the Holy Ghost we should not appear further in this matter than to own it But we cannot but conclude from our observing the managerie of this Assertion and their practise that they would not have any to read teach pray in their families or in the assemblies but when the Spirit of the Lord doth lead them by strong impulses and irresistible Motions to such actions And he that doth otherwise is by them accused of Pharisaical imitation or stealing the word of the Lord from them that spake it with power Which we cannot close with 1. Because it is the will of God that the Gift which is in us should be stirred up as fire which sometimes is covered with ashes hitherto are referred the exhortations to diligence and improvement of Talents 2 Cor. 8. 7. 1 Cor. 9. 25. Mat. 25. and many other places 2. It laies wast the experience of them who have in the midst of infirmities and indispositions acted in the Faith of their duty and Gods promise and have been made blessings to others in their speakings wherein also they have gathered warmth and enlargement before their work was over Afflicted imprisoned souls have most need to be exercised in Prayer Temptations will abound from Satan and the weaknesse of the Flesh to hinder the profitable soul-inlarging exercises of prayers reading exhortations in Publique and private if we break not thorow those hinderances to close with the revealed command leaning on the Promise of Grace 3. Unlesse we think as this Doctrine implies that the motions of the Spirit are the onely rule of Duty which if so must be attended and obeyed without respect to the Scripture command saying not saying or gain-saying in the Letter of it there being by this doctrine no obliging rule but the Law of the Spirit Now if it be more moderately affirmed that the Scripture as written in the heart or the inward-heart-dictates as written in the word are the rule yet it will follow that if there be not a conjunction of the word and Spirit moving with inlargement there 's no rule or obligation actually and so no transgression to forbear though daies weeks and months passe over the heads of them that pray not or preach not though necessity is layed upon them in respect of their work and service and the call of the need of others 1 Cor. 9. 16 17. compared Mat. 6. 11. 1 Pet. 5. 2. 4. To the best of our understandings we judge the Assertors to be against any constant preacher or course of prayer so allowing every man or woman equall liberty in Assemblies to teach or pray and this they say is the true Ministry and all other by the will of Man notwithstanding 1 Tim. 2 12. It is indeed said you may all prophecy one by one but its said also Are all prophets we wish all the Lords people were Prophets The Assemblies of the Saints of old were constant and they had men who attended on the word and prayer who gave themselves to it prepared themselves waiting on God that they might act to the edifying of the Saints in love Act. 20. 7. Act. 6. 2. 4. 1 Tim. 4. 13 14 15 16. 5. This doth to our discernings tend to the establishing of the sayings of them who speak after their trembling sits with an extended voice as the Oracles of God and leaves us not the liberty of the Commended practise of the Bereans to trie the sayings of an Apostle by the Scripture The simple believeth every word Prov. 14. 15. But in this case we have learned that the spirits of the Prophets are subject to other Prophets for examination whether they accord with the Standing Vmpire of all questions the holy Scriptures But that they intend to magnify their writings and Epistles above or into an equality unto the holy Scriptures seems very probable in that they put their papers very diligently into one another hands but not so the Scriptures and do some of them say That it is alike for to take a sentence out of their letters and preach from it as to take a sentence out of Pauls Epistles We confesse we cannot find that ever man came to claim credit to the words that he spake but he was to give proof of it either by the mighty operations of the Spirit of God by him or by the Testimony of Truth given by them who did come with such works or else if he were a Prophet the event was to declare whether he were of God yet if the matter of his exhortation was to withdraw them from the known will of God Deut. 13. 2. though his signes and wonders should come to passe as the man of sinne shall abound with such 2 Thess. 2. yet hearken not to him for the Lord proveth you whether you will keep his commandements 6. The Experiences of many tempted souls may seasonably be heard in this matter who under the former pretences have waited untill their hearts grew so carnall that they had almost lost their savour had not the Lord shewed them that it was their part to give heed to their duty leaving the inlargements of soul to the incomes of the Spirit which graciously met them in the way of Gods commands As for the Accusations of Imitation and Stealing the the word of the Lord from others we shall say Take the mote out of thine own eye Who more notorious imitatours of Apostles and