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A49210	To the Pope, and all his cardinals, bishops, Jesuits, monks and friars, with all the rest of his people, who are reprobates concerning the faith of Christ, gospel-order, and true religion, and also the papists prov'd to be a seditious sect being something in answer to Æneas Mach. Gilmury, and Mauritius Bern, who call themselves students of art / J.L. J.S.	Lancaster, James, d. 1699.; Stubbs, John, 1618?-1674.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1671 (1671)	Wing L311; ESTC R9411	27,585	36

are a Seditious Sect that teach the Doctrine of Devils forbidding Meats and to Marry 1 Tim. 4. which the Spirit did say expresly should come in the last times who speak Lyes in Hypocrisie having you Consciences seared as with a hot-Iron that you a●e hardned in your Wickedness Seducing Spirits Doctrine of Devils For Moses was a Priest and Aaron was a Priest and were Married and the Prophets and Apostles had Wives and Marriage was Go●s Ordinance and Christ established it in the new Covenant wherein he saith Whom God joynes together let no man put assunder So here it is clear Christ the High-Priest made higher then the Heavens confirms Gods Work which is Marriage being his joyning and therefore do not you give liberty to Brothel-Houses and Baudy-Houses and Uncleanness And then you have need of a Purgatory 8thly You are a Seditious Sect for you have erred from the Cross of Christ which is the Power of God and therefore have you set up Wooden Crosses and Stone and Brass and Silver and Gold And how many Hundred Years after Christ were those outward Crosses invented And where did ever Paul or Peter or any of the Apostles set up a Wooden Cross And speak if you dare Let us see your Antiquity And how many Hundred Years after Christ got up that Seditious Sect forbidding Priests to Marry and setting up places to put Women in and vowed them and swore them to Chastity And how many Hundred Years after Christ was it before they made a God and a Christ of Bread and Wine Come out of your Holes and Dens and answer us in the Light if you dare And try your God and your Christ that you have made of Bread and Wine See if you will be as Bold as Baals Priests for they tryed their god before the Prophet Come let us see what this seditious Sect can do with all their Arts Can you make him Speak Is he a Living God that will not be found Asleep And will not your Gods grow Corrupt and Mouldy And is it not a Work of mans hands which you call people to Worship Yea your Fists of Wickedness and Bloody Hands which have been embrued and washed in the Blood of the Innocent with those hands have you not made your God and Christ of your Bread and Wine And therefore I say come out and try them we will have a Bottle of Wine and a Loaf of Bread and it shall be cut in two pieces and the Wine in two Basons and let the Pope and his Cardinals and Friars and Munks with all their Bloody Fists make a God of part of the Wine and part of the Bread and when they have done we will set them in a Cellar with part of the Wine and part of the Bread which is not consecrated and we shall try quickly whether their God will not Mould and their Christ will not Dye that is consecrated and their consecrated Wine grow sower and dye Come shuffle us not off for we will have them locked up in a Cellar with six or seven Locks and have a Watch on our side and another on yours and try if your God and your Christ that is made of Bread and Wine do not Corrupt and do not grow Mouldy and your Wine doth not grow Sower and Dye then we will all turn to you and say that you have made a God and Christ by your Art and then if your God and your Christ you have made of your Bread and Wine do grow Mouldy and the Wine Dye and Sower your Bread Mouldy that you have consecrated you shall all turn to us and acknowledge your selves to be a seditious Sect that have been Deceivers of the people this thousand Years We do challenge you dare you the Pope his Cardinals and Jesuits to come forth and try and bring your God out all you God-Makers and Christ-Makers of the Popes Crue and Company the Lord calls for you to come out of your Holts who have been a company of Blood-thirsty men who have mingled your invented and idolatrous Sacrifices with the Blood of the Innocent Pilate like a seditious Sect erred from the words of God and from Christ Jesus the Head of the Church and therefore you have invented a Head a counterfeit Head of your own making which is not a Catholick Head but a Seditious Head full of Sedition which fills the Body to the brim you are full of Hypocrisie to the very brim and full of Envy and Blood-thirstiness to the brim and full of Murder to the very brim your Actions your Doings your Works your Fruits speak it and declare it to all Nations about you But Christ Jesus he is the Head the Cathelique Head the Universal Head the Catholique Church is Living Members made and of Living Stones a spiritual Houshold sanctified by him and washed and purged and cleansed by the Living Head Christ Jesus who is the same to day yesterday and forever 9thly You are a Seditious Sect as erred from the Power from the Spirit of the Apostles and Christ Jesus and from the Righteousness the fine Linnen which is the Righteousnes of the Saints and of Christ Jesus and therefore you have set up your Surplices and your white Coats who have lost your fine Linnen which is the Righteousness of Christ Jesus and are more like Actors of Stage-Plays and M●un●ebancks then Preachers of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ ●n all your Fools-Coats and the Pope and his Cardinals Fools-caps Keys and Crowns Where do you read in the Scripture or new Testament of Master Paul or Mr. Peter or Mr. Timothy or Mr. Titus or Mr. Matthew or Luke c. or my Lord Timothy or my Lord Titus or Peter or my Lord Bishops we challenge you to make this good out of your own Scripture let us see some proof for your Ambition and Pride who are puft up with Titles and take the Titles that belong to God Almighty to your selves contrary to Elihu who said If I give flattering Titles to men my Maker would not regard me and contrary to Christ Jesus and in despite of Christ Jesus who saith You have one Master and you are his Brethren It is very clear that you are a Seditious Sect and Schism and are rent from the Body and the Head both and therefore you are a Seditious Body It is you which make so many heads and christs and then say Lo christ is here and lo he is there and your Seditious people run to christ-Makers and god-Makers or your idol-Makers Indeed the Heathen Priests made gods which were no Gods and therefore in Spain and France and Rome and Ireland and Portugal and other places how many gods have you And how many christs have you made in all these parts and christ-makers And then he is here and there Lo here and Lo there Antichrist against Christ We know that the Devil will rage at this And how much Blood have you shed number up the Persons because

Fore-men of the World that led into Error as you may read in John and Mat. 7.21 A dread Timothy where the spirit speaks expresly in the latter dayes of forbidding Marriage and of 〈◊〉 the doctrine of Devils And read Jude such as should go in Cain's way and Balaam's way and Corah's way gainsaying the Gospel persecuting for Gifts and Rewards and here your Fruits are clearly seen the Son of Righteousness shines over your heads amongst his Peop●e and so here you went from the Apostles Head Christ if you had been of them no doubt but you would have continued with them Christ saw you inwardly ravening from the Spirit of God from the Spirit of Truth the Word of God in the Heart from the true Faith that works by Love from the true Doctrine and so are up to the very brim in false doctrine and Idols and Images of your own making and Inventions and so you may see in the Revelation how the Beasts got up the first out of the Sea the second out of the Earth and how the Dragon gave his Power to the Beast and how his Worship was set up and how the Whore the false Church got up and there are the Names of the Beast which we leave you to interpret and how long the Beast must be worshipped and how long the true Church was to be in the Wilderness and to be fed of God and the Man-Child taken up to God and he should be brought forth again and to rule all Nations with a Rod of Iron and the Bride should come forth again and the Marriage of the Lamb should be known again and the Lamb and the Saints should have the Victory So read your Antiquity and how that all that would not receive the Beast's Mark and drink the Whores Cup the false-church she drunk the Blood of the Saints What hath she been as a Queen and hath she seen no sorrow But now is she losing her Children and the Scripture is fulfilling Glory be to the Lord God forever But you shall cry Alas Alas What have we had a Golden Cup that is full of Abomination What have your Kings drunk it and do some begin to hate her Oh! You must drink the Cup of the fierceness of the Wrath of God Almighty before this cup of Abomination be purged out of you The Angels begin to sound their Trumpets and the Everlasting Gospel is preached a●ain and that makes you to roar it sounds to Rome and to the Turks and to the Maguls the Jews and Gentiles the Everlasting Power of God before the Devil was will awaken you The Gospel-Bell begins to Ring it is beyond Aaron's Bells Christ the High-Priest is entring into his Temple For had you been of the Apostles no doubt but you would have continued with them for your doctrine is forbid by Christ and his Apostles for Christ bid F●ed my Lambs And you Wolves worry them and have got the Sheep Clothing in three or four Languages you have learned naturally and they that had the gift of Tongues were but tinckling Cymbals and sounding Brass who had not love and therefore all your Sounds it hath been but in comparison the sound of Brass and your tinckling but as Cymbals and your own Inventions And so your head is false not being found of that Catholique Faith that works by Love And the Word of the Lord God is kindling that Fire that will burn the Whores Flesh and will take her together with the Beast and the Dragon and cast her and them alive into the Lake of Fire What you to profess Christ Jesus in words and Murder and Persecute the true Christians to death What is this but Ishmael and Cain and Sodom and Egypt and the Jews and the Heathens spirit and nature and the Whore and the Beast and the Dragon and the Devil and false Prophets and false Apostles and Antichrist against the true Apostle and Christ Jesus who saith Love Enemies Love one another Oh Seditious Sect For when the second Beast rose out of the Earth then all your earthly Idols were established earthly Inventions earthly Images and then got your Whore on the top of the Beast your false Church Mystery Babylon arrayed in Purple and Scarlet deckt with Gold and Precious-Stones and Pearls do you see how she is decked a Golden Cup in her hand full of Abomination of Filthiness of Fornication and upon her head written Mystery Babylon the great the Mother of Harlots Yea of all the Harlots from God from Christ from the Apostles from the Spirit from the Faith from the Truth from the Power of God the Cross of Christ from the Righteousness and from Christ the true Head and from the true Church And this Whore thus decked has drunk the Blood of the Saints and Jesus his Martyrs Who cannot but wonder to see such a Monster And from whence came he that this Whore this Woman this false Church sits upon but from the Bottomless-pit and thither must they return again with his Horns And now is the Cry is Come out of her my People signifying that God hath a People to come out there lest they be Partakers of her Plagues This is the day that the Lord is calling Come out of her my People we have heard his Voice and can rejoyce over her for God will be avenged on her and she shall be cast down like a mighty Mill-stone read Rev. 17. For mark Here is the Devil the Dragon and the Whore and the false Prophet as Companions that came out of the Beast like Froges These go altogether to wit the Beast and the Dragon and the Whore on the top of the Beast the Dragons Power and his worship hath been set up and she is riding on the Devils power killing and murdering the Lord Jesus his Martyrs and Prophets What! Hath your Church lived deliciously and been as a Queen and no Widdow Doth she profess to be a Married Wife and a Queen She hath made many of her Merchants rich and is not she become the Habitation of Devils and Hold of every foul spirit and Cage of every hateful Bird And hath not the Beast had two Horns like a Lamb and exercised the power of the first Beast and all that will not worship and receive h●s Image and drink the Whores Cup must be made war against and their Blood drunk The Son of Righteousness is risen that shines that shews his Horns his Marks his Names what is written upon the Whores Fore-head and so against them that have kept the Testimony of Jesus the Spirit of Prophesie by which they have seen you you have made War against them and against them that have kept the Commands of God the Remnant of her Seed which is the Seed of the Woman whom the Dragon was wrath withal and was fled into the Wilderness there to be fed of God one thousand two hundred sixty dayes and this Dragon gave his power to your Beast that the Whore sits upon and so by

Spirit and noble Mind of Christ Jesus the Heavenly Man the second Adam that rebuked his Disciples that would have had Fire to come down from Heaven to consume them as the Prophets did that would not receive them and Christ told them that they knew not what spirit they were of that would have had mens lives taken away and destroy them and this was by way of Prayer Shall we Pray that Fire come down c. Now if they did not know what spirit they were of the Disciples of Christ Jesus who would have Fire to come down to consume the People they would not do it by Inquisitians and outward Burnings by Stacks of Faggots nor Hang ing of them as you have done Therefore have you known what spirit you are of Have you known your own spirits either Pope or Cardinal or Friars c. that have burned and racked and put to Death so many Thousands since the Apostles dayes since you got up with your counterfeit Church and Heads And so you that do not know what spirit you are of your selves do you think that any that know God or Christ will trust their bodies or their souls or spirits in your hands that do not know what spirit you are of your selves Then they may say they have lost their Reason and Understanding like your selves But Christ's Prophesie is come upon you John's Revelation and the Apostles That the Man of sin and Son of perdition is exalted above all that is called God in you and so there might be a ceparting away from Truth and then the man of sin should be revealed and there must be a falling away and so he is revealed now Thes 2.2 but the Lord will consume him with the Breath of his Mouth and destroy him with the Brightness of his coming that Satan that hath been working in you all those lying Signs and Wonders with the deceivableness of Unrighteousness in you that Perish because you receive not the Love of the Truth that you might be saved For this cause God hath sent strong Delusions among you that you should believe a Lye that they might be damned who believe not the Truth but have had pleasure in all your unrighteous doings and ●ctions and bloodthirstiness But we are bound to give God Thanks always through Jesus Christ who hath called us by his Gospel to obtain the Glory of our Lord Jesus Christ who is the Head of our Church But It 's clear you are of them that have smitten your Fellow-Servants and have eaten and drunken with the Drunkards for what must you look for but to be cut assunder and appointed your Portion with Hypocrites where is Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth Mat. 24. And you have made salfe christs and shewed your Signs and Wonders if it were possible to deceive the very Elect but it is not possible the Elect was before the World was And so you are the unprofitable Servants that have hid your Tallent the fruit of which is Love under your earthly Traditions your earthly Idols and Rudiments your own Inventions and Works of your own hands and the fear you teach your people is by your own precepts which you never had from God Christ nor his Apostles and instead of Clothing the Naked and Feeding the Hungry and Receiving Strangers and Visiting the Sick you have made Naked you have made Sick you have made Strangers and in as much as you have done it to these true Christians you have done it to Christ the Head And why Because they will not own your Idolatrous Wayes and Idols your counterfeit Head your counterfeit Church and instead of Visiting in Prison you have cast into Prison and there let them Perish Hear the Sentence of the Head of the Church for all your evil doings and works Depart from me for you must go into everlasting Punishment yea depart from me ye cursed into everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Then what have you got here by all your Merits by all your Works your tinckling Cymbals your founding Brass who have not had love Have you given your Goods to the Poor Could you give your Bodies to be Burned Have you Tongues Hebrew Greek and Latine and full of Envy and Blood-thirstiness and void of Love A seditious Sect degenerated Have you Faith It 's but a dead one one that doth not work by Love for Love is the fulfilling of the Law Is not the Birth of the Flesh sound amongst you of Hagar that persecutes him that is born of the Spirit the Free-womans Children And so are not you the dishonourable Birth that must be cast out And are not the works of the Flesh manifest amongst you as Adultery Fornication Vncleanness Lasciviousness Idolatry Witch-craft Hatred Variance Emulations Wrath Strife Sedition Heresie Envy Murder Drunkenness Revilling such like Look upon your church are not all these found Look over Ireland on your Holy-dayes what Drunkeness I never saw so many people drunk as I do of your people on that you call Peter's-day but the fruits of the spirit it is Love Joy Peace Gentleness Patience Meekness Goodness Long suffering Faith Temperance but these are wanting among you and the other Fruits plentifully may be gathered of your corrupt Trees that cannot bring forth good Fruit who are Strangers to the Covenant of Promise without the Hope that purisies as he is pure therefore you must have a Purgatory when you are dead and so are like a Company of Heathen Priests raging for your Images and your Idols and your godds you have made of Bread and Wine and christs and are ignorant of them that preach the true Doctrine of the Apostles who preached the Word in the Heart and Mouth and Christ was in people except they were Reprobates though they have had Bread and Wine The Apostles tell people no where that Bread and Wine was Christ after they had blessed it the Apostle tells them of an Anointing within them that should teach them and as it doth teach them they should continue in the Son and in the Father and as he was so were they in the present evil World So they need not have a Purgatory but you are all in your Purgatories already Head and Tail and Body already seperated from God and the true Church and Head And so as Christ said False Prophets should come Mat. 7.2 and Antichrists and bid the Disciples not to go after them for they should be inwardly ravening Wolves having Sheeps-Clothing And so its clear that you have the Sheeps-clothing that you are inwardly ravening Wolves that have worried so many Sheep and Lambs but you have prey'd upon them and made War with the Remnant of the Seed of the Woman and have drunk the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus So as Christ said they should come and John said they were come and it was the last time then and they went forth into the World and the World went after them and so you were the

the Dragons power she rules And out of this Beasts power have your false Prophet gone crooking up and down the Nations and creeping under the Mountain like Froggs the unclean spirits and these spirits are Devils that came out of the Mouth of the Beast and false Prophet that should work Miracles and deceive the World But a day of Famine will come and Plague and Death to this Life that you live in and flaming Fire for strong is the Lord God that judgeth her the great Whore and false Church her smoak is seen and we know that you will begin to knaw your tongues for Pain for your Kingdom is full of Darkness For the Angel hath Power over your Thrones and your Rivers will be dried up which is muddy Water For hath not your City bin divided into three parts and the Turk got one part and the Protestants another And all your noisom Smells begin to smell who have the Beasts Mark in your Fore-heads and have worshipped his Image that have been out of the Image of Christ and so the Lord is True and Righteous in his Judgments for he hath judged the great Whore which hath corrupted the Earth with her Forhication and will avenge the blood of his Servants at your hands she hath corrupted the Earth with her Idols and Idolatries and Inventions and Fables and so we are come through the Light of Christ Jesus above her by which we see the Heavenly Jerusalem the true Spouse the Lambs Wise Christ the Head the true Church and the new Earth wherein dwells Righteousness and your old Earth which the Devil compasseth wherein dwells Unrighteousness filled with Idolatry and Corruption and filthiness of flesh and spirit that which cumbers the Ground fruitless Trees that have born no Fruit to God The Gates of our City Heavenly Jerusalem are not shut neither by Night nor Day but any that come to the Light of Christ Jesus they may enter through the Light into our City which is far above your Mystery Babylon false City false Church VVhore Dragon false Prophet which hath been the Drinker of the Blood of the Righteous Persecutors and Murderers by the Devils power and authority which Christ who is our Head comes to destroy who was before the Devil was and will be when the Devil is gone who was First and Last the Beginning and End the Top and Corner-Stone who is our Rock which our House is built upon and our Foundation upon which we are built Glory to God in the Highest for evermore And now to something further VVhereas you tell us a long Tale of Anaxagoras a Philosopher you have just hit your own Condition for it suits your present Condition and it is a very fit Comparison for you who would make People believe you can make a godd and christ and make a head for your Body the POPE and so deceive people as he makes people believe That the Snow was Black and the Sun was a broad Plate of Nettal And so you are so perverse in Nature though you are confuted and convinced in your Consciences you will not be brought from your Error as before mentioned and out of your Seditious and Erronious wayes and so you have gone about to confound Truth but it is too hard for you for the Devil is out of it And as for your prophane Impiety you say we draw people to that is your own Condition and Jewish Fables and Heathens also you may find enough of them at home in your own Houses and Fields nay worse then the Iews It seems you cry out That we Disturb the Tranquility of the Christian Religion Nay it is your false Religion which you have made who are a Seditious Sect who are erred from the Pure Religion that is above that keeps from the Spots of the World which is to visit the Fatherless Widdows and Strangers and you instead of this cast into Prison and let your Poor go Begging up and down your Streets and Fatherless and Widdows as look into France and other Parts And if you were in this Religion which you as a Seditious Sect are erred from which would keep you from the Spots of the World which is pure from above and undefiled before God you would not tell people of a Purgatory And so the pure Religion we stand for against all your false Ones and every one among us may Minister as they have received the Grace as good Stewards and they may all Prophesie one by one And God hath poured out his Spirit upon his Sons and Daughters and Hand-maids and Young-men and Old men that every one hath somewhat to offer to God but this is a Strange Paradox to your false Church and seditious Sect that are erred from the Apostles who limit your Preaching to such as have got the Natural tongues and so Nebuchadnezar like whom you please you set up and whom you please you pull down and whom you please you open their Mouths and whom you please you stop them and they that would not Bow at the sound of your PIPE and ORGAN you cast into the Fire Nebuchadnezar like But this is a Strange Paradox you can make Ministers as you can make a Christ and a Godd one like the other out of Truth an● so in so doing deny the true Ministers and the true Christ and God who is to be worshipped in the Spirit and in the Truth which Christ set up above 1600 years since and since you have forsaken Christ that is worshipped in the Spirit and in the Truth you compel others do not you so who is the same to day yesterday and forever But from this Infallible Worship that Christ s●t up in the Spirit and in the Truth which the Devil is out of are you erred from the Spirit and Truth become a Seditious Sect an Erronious and Schismatical Sect and Persecuting the true Worshippers of the living God in Spirit and Truth which Truth and Spirit is within by which Spirit the God of Truth is known It seems John Stubbs and James Lancaster have sorely angred that Seditious Sect of Rome And whereas thou tellest us of Phanatick Assertions which we are clear of but thou mayst look at home for that and take in thy old fathers Puddles of Errors and Blasphemies which we deny And as for Phanatick is there a People more like them in the World then you in Rage and Fury and Madness against the Righteous for your Godd you have made and your Images and Idols and Fables And have you not tewed your selves about them as much as ever Tubal did about the godds they made For the Spirit of God is Gentle and Meek and so your Phanatick Humours have sufficienly spoken forth themselves to the Nations And whereas thou speakest That we have rightly tituled the Mother Church of Rome the Old-Woman ☞ Though thou hast got some Glory in it which seems to paint thee off a little but thou shouldst have taken all our words The Mother Church

of Christ Jesus And how came he to be laid in the Grave and yet came after to shew the Apostles his Hands and Sides seeing they had eaten him and his Body was whole And the Apostle saith As often as you do eat this Bread and drink this Cup Was it an outward Cup they drunk or was there somewhat in the Cup Did they swollow an outward Cup Come interpret this and confute your selves And whereas thou bringest Faustus and Augustine and speakest scoffingly of the People of God called Quakers and call'st them Humming Speakers and shewest thy self to be of Ishmaels brood And you bring St. John Damascenus and a many such like Fathers of the Church which is nothing to the purpose but only to blind People that are ignorant withal to make them believe that your Bread and Wine is Christ after you have blessed it to keep your poor deceived people in ignorance But the Lord is taking off your Covers that your filthy Raggs may be seen and your ugly Images and Idols which have been set up by the Unclean spirit and spirit of Persecution And whereas thou layest down a Charge To know who was our first grand Speaker after Peter of our Religion I Answer He that was of Peter's Spirit which was of the Spirit of Christ Jesus which was the Seed of the Woman whom the Beast and your false Church the Whore hath drunk their Flood and made War against them that have kept the Testimony of ●es●●s that have seen all your works and actions and testifie against them with all the whole Train of Idolatry and Idols and Images that you have made an Idol of Bread and Wine and now the Seed is rising and the Witness that will make your earth to quake and Christ says Learn of Me he was the first Speaker to us called Quakers This is my beloved Son hear ye him saith God So I tell thee he was our first Speaker and he hath given us his Spirit that leads into all Truth that hath taught us the Way to life and Salvation and he is the Rock of Ages and not Peter and the Foundation of many Generations and is the same to day as he was yesterday and so forever and he hath been our Leader our Prophet our Shepherd our Priest our Bishop our Councellor our Minister our Preacher whom God hath anointed to Preach that Preacheth Life Light and Salvation So we come to obey his Doctrine and do his Will and we shall know his Doctrine if in doing the same you will know our first Preacher you must come to the Light to see him which will condemn all the Images and Idols and condemn your christ and godd that you make of bread and wine and condemn your head and church too And whereas thou speakest Scoffingly Of the Church of God being Smothered under a Cloud We say to these Mockers and to this Seditious Sect That the Church hath been in the Wilderness there fed of God Forty and Two Moneths One Thousand Two Hundred and Threescore Dayes which is a Time and Times and half a Time so count you a day for a year and then you may reckon your selves how long your false church the Mother of Harlots hath been on the back of the Beast whom the Devil the Dragon gives power to and the year when the Woman the true Church is coming-out of the Wilderness who hath been fed of God God hath been her Feeder which indeed you with the Dragons power would have smothered Her as under a Cloud or a Tubb but the Earth helped Her and she was preserved in the Wilderness where you could not find her though you went with Judas his Swords Staves and Lanthorns your band of Soulaiers from your counterfeit Head But I tell you She was fed of God in the Wilderness Ferty two Moneths and reckon this and then you may see how long the false church and the whore and the beast hath reigned and when she comes out of the Wilderness again Then we Challenge you To tell us how many Martyrs Prophets and Saints the beast and whore the false church that sate upon the Beast in the Dragons power how much of their Flood have they drunk to wit the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus And so by this time thou wilt see the coming in of the False church the where and the going into the Wilderness of the true Church the Down-fall of the Beast and of the Whore for if thou canst count the number of the true Church that comes out of the Wilderness thou wilt know the number of your false The Scriptures we own we do contend against your filthy Raggs of your Heresie which we deny and will not put on for we have a better Garment which is the Fine Linnen which is the Righteousness of the Saints THe Ingenious Reader hath read your Paper and here is somewhat in Answer to it and finds it a confused piece of Nonsence and Toutologies and Contradictions and if all the Forefathers and these that thou hast quoted be as dark as you are they are in that which is Darkness it self and ignorant of the Scripture and of Christ and the Apostles Doctrine and Spirit and Power and Faith and are seperated and degenerated from it to wit the Spirit of God You are all judged you and your Forefathers together with your Works your Images and are in the spirit of Persecution the first birth of the Flesh of Hagar that is cast out and and not the Bride of the Lambs Wife nor the true Spouse of Christ Jesus which is coming forth of the Wilderness Halelujah Postscript IN Matt. 26 Christ said Take the Cup and said Drink ye all of it Now was it an outward Cup that the Dissciples did drink or something in the Cup Then you do interpret this wrong for it was not the Cup they did drink And then you must interpret that Scripture This is my Body and Christ brake the outward Bread then did Christ break his own Body and give it to his Disciples before he suffered and did they eat it then What Body had Christ to offer upon the Cross for the Sins of the People if that the Apopostles had eaten it And Christ doth not say The Wine which was called the Blood of the New Testament was the New Testament And Mark 14. and Luke 22. Christ brake the Bread and gave it to his Disciples And did he break his Body that suffered upon the Cross for Mankind No His Body was whole then And he took the Bread and brake it and gave it to the Disciples and they did eat it For if that outward Wine was his Blood and the Bread his Body then his Blood and Body was eaten and drunk before he suffered and if his Disciples had eaten his Body and drunk his Blood then they had eaten Christ and then there had been no Offering on the Cross for the Sins of Mankind according to your Assertion And in M●tt