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A85129	Antichrists man of vvar, apprehended, and encountred withal, by a souldier of the armie of the Lamb. Otherwise, an answer to a book set forth by one that subscribes his name Edmund Skipp, preacher of the Gospel (as he saith) to a people at Bodenham in Herefordshire; but is found one that is acting Antichrists part disguised: but nakedly seen, & herein discovered in this answer to his book, called the Worlds wonder, or the Quakers blazing-starre. And in this answer he is discovered, and proved to be one that is chief in the service of the old dragon: who pretends in his book to discover the mystery of the Quakers, as he calls them, and to lay open a dangerous design: who is found out, that whilst he hath been pretending to be chief in discovering a plot, or Antichrists misterious actings, is found himself to be the chief plotter, ... / Written in Worcestershire by a servant of the Lord, the second moneth called April, 1655.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.; Smith, Humphrey, d. 1663.	1655 (1655)	Wing F470; Thomason E843_9; ESTC R202123	95,493	95

were sent And as it was with that servant of the Lord so it may be with some others of the servants of the Lord they know sometimes whither to go and not at present what to say and as it was no delusion in Ez●kiel to go and wait so it is no delusion in them that so go in obedience to the sp●rit of the Lord though they waite when they come there as long or little time as the Lord pleaseth as Ezekiel the servant and true Prophet of the Lord waited amongst the people of the Captivity at Tel-abib where he was sent seven dayes after he came there then he came there amongst them by the river Cheber before the word of the Lord came unto him what to say therefore silence all flesh also read Ezek. 3.14 15 16. When Ananias was sent to Paul he was told in a vision to whom to go and what to say Act. 9.10 11 c. Peter sent by the spirit c. When Peter had seen the vision though it was not told him before he went what to say yet he knew whither to go and went without gain-saying Act. 10.17 18 19 20 c. So others of the servants of the Lord may know by vision or revelation whither to God and not at present what to say and to go without gain-saying the power they do well for to obey Philp sent on the way towards Gaza 1. When Philip was in the villages of the Samaritans he was commanded to arise and go towards the South unto the way that went down from Jerusalem unto Gaza and he did obey the commands he knew at that time onely whither to go to such away that led to Gaza but he neither knew what to do there nor what to say yet he did obey and went unto that way that went from Jerusalem unto Gaza which is desert Act. 8.25 26 27. Philip joyned to the Chariot 2. And again Philip when he came there as he was going on the way he saw a Chariot and the spirit said unto Philip go and joyn thy self to yonder Chariot and he went knowing then the second time whither to go but not at that present what to say until he came at him that sat in the Chariot to whom by the Spirit he was sent Act. 8.29 30. And when Philip came at the man to whom he was sent instead of delivering a message first unto him when he came there he propounded a question Act. 8.30 But the Eunuch neither ran away nor sent Philip to prison for propounding unto him a question as many Antichristian Ministers in these dayes do Take notice thereof An observation to be ●aken notice of by the Lords servants about being sent c. And here it is to be observed that the Lord did not alwayes make known to his Servants whom he sends to particular persons and places what to say before they go their obedience is required first to go and then to wait for what he is pleased by them to say or do therefore he will have his servants to stand in his Counsel that they may be ordered by him according to the good pleasure of his will Some of the Lords servants and at sometimes knows-before they go both whither to go what to say and what to do others sometimes they know to whom to go and not at present what to say it was so amongst the Lords servants Prophets and Apostles before time and it is so with the Lords servants now they are to be ordered by his Power in his own Counsel according to the good pleasure of his will Several things acted by the servants of the Lord before time which if any of the servants of the Lord should be commanded so to do now this generation would wonder and call it delusion madness And again see a few of the Prophets acts according to command First see Jeremiah's act about the earthen bottle how the word of the Lord came to him and told him what to do which would be strange in these days if any of the Lords servants should do so and likewise concerning the girdle when he was commanded once to go and put it in a hole of the rock Jer. 13.1 2 3 4. and he obeyed that command ver 15. but he knew not at that time why he did it but shewed his obedience to the Lord then after many dayes he was commanded to go fetch that girdle again and it was so marred that it was profitable for nothing see Jer. 13.6 7. and the second time Jeremiah knew nor why he did so act but he shewed his obedience without any gain-saying Then the third time the Lord made known to him the mystery of the thing verse 8.9.10 Likewise that of Ezekiel about the tile when he pourtrayed upon it and laid si●ge with a pourtrayed tile c. Ezek. 4. and likewise concerning the Barbers rasor cutting off his hair and weighing it in the ballance c Ezek. 5. and about digging through the wall to carry the goods out when reason would have said the door had been more convenient and many things which the Lords servants did there which if any of the Lords servants now should be commanded to act such things to figure out the condition of a people and what the Lord would do and in his time perfect and accomplish they would in this generation be ready to call it madness delusion and folly but such as knows not the immediate teachings of the Spirit of God knows neither his sending to particular persons nor places nor the Spirits workings and actions no more then thou Edm. Skip dost who so slaundereth and accuseth the people of God and art a stranger to the immediate teachings of the Spirit of God as thou hast shewed and before is proved therefore silence deceit and stoy thp mouth thy Prognostication or Astronomical Judgment is false and stuft full of lies falshoods and untruths to fill ignorant people with fancies envy and lies that thou may make them like thy self in deceit and filthiness such as are wiling to believe it and be led by thee but to the wise hearted thou hast tittered thy shame and folly With the light that changeth not art thou and thy pernicious waies and fubtil twistings seen and comprehended and with the light judged and condemned And where thou says There was one in the North kept a fast a great while and thou conjectured it to be either Nayler or Fo● who was commanded of the Lord to fast and as thou says if thy memory faile thee not it was seaven days and having so done he was commanded to fast so many more next ensuing that and so several of them as thou says have been commanded to fast and this thou says is the little great wonder this man having fasted as be was commanded by his enemy under the pretence of a friend c. Reply Thy sting in thy tail fallacy and little great wonder is denied where the

which in thy first demonstration thou would charge the Quakers withal who says they are so clearly mistaken that they call evil good and good evil In this thou art charged to be a lyar and false accuser and thy saying is a clear mistake and altogether false therefore as thou art so is it and both evil and so of the Devil not knowing what thou says nor whereof thou affirms saying they and it is thy self and such as thou art And where thou judgeth the Quakers by thee so called with such false judgment and so falsly accuseth them thou may'st be ashamed and blush speaking so vainly and foolishly out of the envy and pride of thy heart which thou would cover with feigned pretences but they will not shelter thee It is thou that art so clearly mistaken in judgment and not they as thou falsly saith that regards not what thou sayest In saying those that thou calls Quakers do judg the wayes practices and actions of all people to be abominable Antichristian and unjust except their own and above all people do they cry out against and disown such who by the world are reproved and disowned as the Church and Disciples of Christ I answer the Church and Disciples of Christ we do not disown nor cry out against therefore in that thou hast again vented thy lie but thee and all false hearted hypocrits and such as pretend to be of the Church and disciples of Christ and are not such we disown cry out against and deny And all that walk in the way to the Father which is but one Ioh. 14.9 such we do not deny cry out against nor disown but al that walk in that way we own even all that are in Christ and walk in him in the lowest degre we do not call that way nor such actions abominable but the way of holiness which the Prophet Isaiah speaks of in Isa 53.8.9.10 and the unclean shall not pass over it but all contrary ways and act ons to puritie and holiness we disown cry out against and deny and all such as say they are Jews and are not but of the Synagogue of Satan such we cry out against deny and disown but the true and right way we own and especially all such as are in that way and all those that are reproached and disowned by the world who are of the Church and disciples of Christ therefore thy lie Edmund Skip is abominable and false and as it is so art thou an abom nable lyer and false hearted hypocrit and one that speak lyes in hypocrisie that hath so regardlesly said Secondly All actions and practises which are in righteousness is by us owned and not denyed knowing this that he that doth righteousness is of God and that is owned but he that doth not righteousness is not of God and that is by us disowned cryed out against and denyed he that doth righteousness is of God and he that doth not righteousness is not of God 1 Ioh. 3.7 and 10. Thirdly In this the children even of God are manifest and the Children of the Devil take notice of this all ye unrighteous ones and thou also who art the lyer and of thy Father the Devil and all such Ioh. 8.44 therefore see what is prepared for such Rev. 21.8 and lying slandering and false accusing is from the evil so of the Devil and that is Antichrist an but Edmund Skip in thy blazing Star thou hast vented thy lies slanders and false accusations to blaze abroad so proving thy selfe to be such a one therefore thy actions are Antichristian actions and thou art an Antichrist and of thy Father as aforesaid and such there are many 1 Iohn 2.18 Then thou and all such are to be cryed against disowned and utterly denyed and though thou may'st be offended because I tell thee the truth but the Spirit of truth doth judg the deceit of thy base heart our own is accepted and the unjust rejected and the way of truth true Church and Disciples of Christ we own and all false ways self-pretended Churches and unrighteous actions we deny against them cry and altogether disown 1. To that which thou calls thy first charge pag. 7. If thou was charged for hypocrisie though thou seek to justifie thy self thy self-justification will not stand good but is null and void therefore of no effect for I have already proved thee to be a lyar slanderer and false accuser of the truth and of the innocent one also that regards not what thou falsly against the truth saith and hast said so a lyar in hypocrisie as before is proved therefore upon thee who art in the hypocrisie and deceit the charge shall stand and as Conscience-Book is opened the light which changeth not though thou alter and change yet the light will then answer upon thee Gods judgments to be just and the woes that are due unto hypocrites to be due unto thee as well as to them spoken of in Ma. 23 who art in the nature turned from the light of which hypocisie doth arise as well as false accusations slanders and lyes Secondly Something now to that which thou calls thy second charge when thou says Thou art charg'd for acting against thy Conscience c. I Answer though thy Conscience may be seared as such that make shipwrack of faith and a good Conscience and now a fleshly confidence be got up in thee and thereby a lying false accusing spirit doth possess thee as the issue of thy heart hath made it manifest and the light in thy Conscience thou art an enemy unto and acts contrary to that which should exercise thy Conscience towards God that is evidently demonstrated to any single eye and in secret the light in thy Conscience which thou art an enemy to it will here for the truth witness the same and also against thy deceit Though thou seek to resist the Cryer it will cry and in thy Conscience against thee testifie and be as a dart at thy heart when Conscience-Book doth open and the light which changeth not will stand firm and be thy condemnat on from God that hates it and walks contrary to it It saith thou should not lye but thou doth lye and art here proved a lyar then thou acts contrary to that within thy Conscience therefore contrary to thy Conscience And the light in thy Conscience saith thou should not falsly accuse any nor judg with unrighteous judgment c. but thou doth accuse falsly and hath accused falsly those thou calls Quakers falsly and also judged and doth judg with false judgment c. which will not abide the tryal nor stand before the judgment seat of Christ but both thou and it are for judgment and in thy condemnation remembered thou will also be of what against the truth thou hast acted and done and acting against the truth and light the light in thy Conscience thou actest contrary to thy Conscience and though thou say thou do not thou art proved a lyar before

Serpent shoots forth his sting in those words saying he was commanded by his enemy so to fast under the pretence of a friend thy pretence is false and the enemy and his commands we do deny and thee the Conjecturer Prognosticator and Astronomer with thy lying wonders in thy false and Astronomical Judgment and thy prodigious Comet with its scintillations and sp●rklings thou tells of and also thy little great wonder and lyes and false accusations and slanders who art he that Satah hath trans●ormed like to an Angel of light who art venting thy lyes and malice because thy false Apostle ship is now discovered and thy Antichristian transforming being fitting for his highest attain mens ●nd making and made able to deceitful works as thou hast learned by Antichrists methodical way in his School and art learning that Philosophical Maxime thou rests of and by thy Philosophy and vain deceit deceives poor ignorant creatures acting ●n that mystery of iniquity and sophistry plagues upon it and wo and ●●●geance from God is the reward of thy Satan cal work who art ●o●●gly promoted by him as to be his Nuntio Thou declarer and publisher of horrid lyes slanders and false accusations wo and vengeance expect for thy reward and the lake is prepared for sorcerers inchanters witches lyers and such like Rev. 21.8 thy filthiness we deny thy sting in thy taile Rev. 1.9 and also thy decei● ablenefs slanders false accusations and horrid lye and lyers are for the burring lake and such like take notice of that Secondly But obeying the commands of the Spirit we own for such are Christs friends as keeps his commands and watching fasting and prayer we own according to the reachings and commands of the Spirit of truth and with Gospel discipline and Doctrine but all that which is contrary to the truth of the Gospel that we deny and the Devil doth not nor will not so strike at his own Kingdom of lust as to set any six or seaven daies to fast for thereby lust it becomes weak and it as a means of rooting lust out that great evil on fruit of the Devil and as Christ hath said some sort and so it may be said of this sort it goes not out but by fasting and prayer and herein thy Judgement is false and not true and thou contemns the power of truth and the works of the Spirit of God and one while saith if it was be thou calls Nayler or another that he had a command of God so to d● 〈◊〉 thou sayest he said he had then he did well that kept the command and obeyed and art thou offended at that thou art offended at truth if thou be but thou art therefore ignorant of the teachings and workings of the Spirit of truth and so ignorant of Christs commands and yet taketh upon thee to Judge the truth with thy false mind and out of thy false heart and hath also manifested the same in accusing him falsly that thou hast but a conjecture of be it Nayler or Fox and so with the truth art thou judged and thy lying tongue condemned by the Spirit of truth according to the heritage of the servants of the Lord Isa 54.17 Thirdly For fasting which thou contemns and derides such as do it in obedience to a true command and so in obedience to the Lord for thou says in pag. 44. thou art perswaded they dare not tell a lye c. and if they dare not tell a lye c. as thou says then God teacheth them to deny lying and speak the truth and so to obey the teachings and commands of the Spirit of truth and it is God that teacheth truth and no lies for no lye is of the truth therefore in thy sayings thou hast ensnared thy self and by thy words art thou judged to be unstable like a wave of the Sea foaming out thy own shame and manifesteth thy confusion that says for thy own ends as in pag. 44. thou art perswaded they dare not lye yet further thou sayest they are deluded by Satan How confused thou art the Devil hath no truth to speak then not to teach ●●●●ther to speak truth and not lye for there is no truth in him 〈◊〉 when he speaketh a lye he speaketh it of himself for there is no truth in him John 8.44 then not for any to receive from him therefore they speaking truth and no lye whom thou accusest they are neither taught of him nor deluded by him Take shame to thy self and blush that so lieth of them and accusest also for fasting and when they had confirmed the souls of the Disciples and had prayed with fasting they commended them to God on whom they believed Acts 14.21 22 23. and they gave them to fasting and prayer 1 Cor. 7.5 and were in fastings often and they approved themselves as the Ministers of God in much patience in afflictions in necessities in distresses in stripes in imprisonments in tumults in labours in watchings and fastings 2 Cor. 6.4 5. here in judging fastings that were done in obedience to a command of the Lord to be a command of Satan thou therein hast judged the spirits action judged the practice of the Saints Servants of the Lord and art ignorant of the conditions of the aforesaid approbation of the Ministers of the Gospel and so hast manifested thy Antichristian spirit of trechery delusion and deceit according to thy gradations as thou hast been taught methodically in thy master Antichrists School who art one of his Antichristian false Apostles and Schollers trained up in error delusion and deceit by him whose coming is with signs and lying wonders with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish 2 Thess 2.9 10 11. And where thou says for that deceit of theirs in giving over all care and Callings and then honest employments in the world they are made to misapprehend the teachings of Christ in Matth. 10.37.38 Reply We do not misapprehend the teaching of Christ in Mat. 10.37 38 but witness thereunto and in that thou art proved a lyer And for that fallacy which is laid down in that word All Care and Callings and honest employments that is also false and is so proved before therefore thou art charged with another lye thy mouth is full of such stuff which thou hast learned in the Antichristian School where thou hast learned thy art of lying and deceit he ashamed and blush And thou Sophister saiest being given over to lyes where thou wrests and twists about with thy fallacies and deceivable spirit that we think Christ doth engage his people to leave all care and diligence Reply Thy fallacy thou hast laid down in thy saying all care and diligence which we deny and here thou art found with another lie in thy mouth silence deceit thou cannot by a lying-spirit enter into our thoughts that saist They think Christ doth engage his people to leave all care and diligence Here again I charge thee with another Lie for it is