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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85152	Truth cleared of scandals, or truth lifting up its head above scandals, &c. Occasioned by the meeting of those people called Baptists, and those whom the world scornfully calleth Quakers, at Harlington in stafforthshire, upon the 27. day of the 7 month, in the year 1654. Shewing the difference betwixt the ordinances of Christ and of Antichrist, and the true worship and the false, with a discovery of the two seeds, and the New Covenant, the doctrine of baptismes, laying on of hands, the ressurectio, and eternal judgement, Heb. 6. 1, 2, 3, and Heb. 12.22, and 23. Also, the unprofitable servant and the talents, and of being caught up into paradise, the thorn in the flesh, and what it is to take pleasure in infirmities, and what those infirmities are, that is to be gloried in; also, something of perfection, and imperfection, and the glorying in the crosse largely proved, according to scripture, &c. / By one known to the world by the name of Rich. Fanrworth.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing F512; Thomason E820_3; ESTC R207345	39,723	39

for the Law made nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better hope did which hope is Christ as it is said the Mystery and the hope of Glory as it is written Col. 1.27 1 Iohn 3.3 verse and he that hath this hope purifieth himself even as he is pure as Iohn hath said whose words thou would have had by thy craft to have made void and null the Covenant of God in Christ Jesus our Lord which thou could not for Christ Jesus is the end of the one and the beginning and fulfilling of the other who took away the first and did establish the second and by one offering he hath for ever perfected them that are sanctified and their sins and iniquiries will he remember no more as he hath said and where remission of sins is there is no more offering for sin but there is boldnesse to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus by the new and living way which he hath consecrated through the vail that is to say his flesh Heb. 10.9 10 to the 21. Then Pallard I asked thee if Iohn when he spoke those words did write those words for a continuance in sin because afterwards he saith My little children these things write I unto you that ye sin not 1 Iohn 2.1 And Iohn said afterwards My little children I have written unto you because your sins are forgiven you for his Names sake and he that abideth in him sinneth not he that sinneth hath neither seen him nor known him as it is written 1 Iohn 2.13 14. 1 Iohn 3.6 7. And as Iohn is speaking of the two seeds and the new birth and the manifestations of the love of Christ and the difference between the godly and the wicked or the children of God and the children of the devill and as he cometh up to speak of higher degrees in the grouth he saith He that is born of God sinneth not neither can he sin because he is born of God and his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because his seed remaineth in him and he that is begotten of God keepeth himself and the wicked one toucheth him not as it is written 1 Iohn 3 9. 1 Iohn 5.18 And Iohn said that he that commits sin is of the devill and he that sinned not was of God and thereby the children of God and the children of the divell was to be known asunder for the divels children sinneth and Gods children sinneth not as it is there said and Christ Jesus was made manifest to take away their sins and in him was no sin at all and as he was so was they then in that present world as it is written and left upon record 1 Iohn 3.5 6 7 8 9 10. 1 Iohn 3.14 1 Iohn 2.27 28. 1 Iohn 5.20 1 Iohn 4.16 17. Pallard then thou told of a visible Church and visible Officers and visible Ordinances c. Answ I said unto thee again that the Church was in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ made all of living Stones elect and precious a spiritual house for God to dwell in by the Spirit and Officers and overseers were made by the holy Ghost and he is not visible for the world seeth him not neither knoweth him as it is written Acts 20.28 1 Pet. 2.5 6. Iohn 14.17 And God is a Spirit and his Church is spirituall and they endured as seeing him who is invisible and they were not come to the Mount which could be touched but they was come to Mount Zion and to the City of the living God and to the heavenly Jerusalem which is invisible and to an innumerable company of Angels and to the Generall Assembly and Church of the first born written in heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the Spirits of just men made perfect and that was not visible but invisible and incomprehensible in the power and life of God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Heb. 12.22 23. And Christ is the head of this spirituall body his Church which he hath purchased with his blood and he rules in it and orders it by his Spirit and he hath put all things under his feet and given him to be head over all things to the Church which is his body the fulnesse of him that filleth all in all Eph. 1 22 23. And he came and preached peace to them that were a far off and to them that were nigh and he also preached to the Spirits in prison 1 Pet. 3 19. And he is the same yesterday to day and for ever Heb. 13.8 and the word of Faith is preached by the Righteousnesse of Faith in the heart by Christ Jesus there in his Church and Temple which is holy and pure 1 Cor. 3.16 17. Rom 10.6 7 8. For through him we have an accesse to the Father by one Spirit and are baptized by one Spirit into one Body which is Spirituall and we are made to drink into one Spirit where the fruit of the Vine is and the bread of life and the water of life the thirsty souls for to refresh and there is one Lord one Faith one Baptisme one God and Father of us all who are heirs according to the promise and being baptized into Christ we have put on Christ and are fellow-Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God and are built upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles Christ Jesus being the chief corner Stone in whom all the building fitly framed groweth unto an holy Temple in the Lord in whom also we are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit and God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and in Truth and the Church is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Eph. 2.17 1 Cor. 12.12 13. Gal. 3.27 28 29. Eph. 2.18 to the end Iohn 6. Phil. 3.3 Iohn 4.23 24. 1 Thess 1.1 verse Then I asked thee Thomas Pallard water Baptizer if God who was a Spirit was visible for the Church is in him the Pillar and Ground of all Truth and the Word and the Law and the Ordinances and Oracles of God stands in the incomprehensiblenesse of his infinitenesse and his Worship is in the Spirit and power of the holy Ghost in the eternity and the essence of the Scripture or the Divine Epistles written by the Spirit is in the heart tables as it is written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God in the mystery and the Baptisme is in the Spirit and praying and singing and preaching is in the power and pure and eternall wisdome by the Spirit and the watch is in the Spirit and all the officers and overseers in the Church of Christ is in the Spirit made by the power and authority of the holy Ghost in the blood of Christ sealed by the Spirit and annointed and Christ is the chief Shepherd and Bishop of the soul and maketh his Angels Spirits and his Ministers flames of fire and they

the Letter Psal 119 89. His name is called the Word of God Rev. 19.13 But his Name is not the Letter Pallard how dark art thou that sayes the Letter and the Spirit are inseparable and then after called it a History is the Spirit of God a History and is Christ a History The declaration saith he is a Mistery but I bade thee instance one place where the Bible was called a History but thou could not see how confused thou art and how blinde and if the blinde lead the blinde shall not both fall into the ditch Here I charge thee to be ignorant of God and ignorant of his teachings And I charge thee to be no Minister of Christ nor the Gospel that sayes the Letter and the Spirit are inseparable thou hast set up thy self to be a Teacher of others and many such as thou art who art yet untaught of God and you would be teachers of others before you be taught to deny your selves and thou and all that sayes the Spirit and the Letter are inseparable and cals it a History you are blind and ignorant of the Mistery and blinde and ignorant of the truth and the power of God you know not nor the holy Ghost that preaches the Letter without the Spirit and would raise up the spirit out of the dead Letter all such are witches Sorcerers and conjurers and we hold all such accursed Gal. 1.8 9. Gal. 3. The Apostles of Christ went up and down preaching the Kingdom and preaching the Word and not the Letter and the Word grew and multiplyed but the Letter did not grow and multiply Acts 12 24. And they were sent out to preach by the Spirit but they were not sent out to preach by the Letter and the Spirit of Christ doth quicken the mortall body but the Letter doth not but the Letter doth not and by the Spirit Christ were raised from the dead but by the Letter he were not raised from the dead Isaiah was annointed to preach by the Spirit but the Letter hath not the 〈◊〉 to annoint withall he said the Lord God and his Spirit had sent him but he did not say the Letter sent him neither did he ask leave of the Letter when the Spirit said go and all the Apostles were sent by the Spirit in the power of the holy Ghost but they was not sent by the Letter which is neither Spirit power nor holy Ghost and the Spirit of the Lord bade Philip joyn himself to the Eunuchs chariot but the letter did not the Eunuch had the Letter to read but knew not the guide which is the Spirit Rom. 8.14 and the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip again that the Eunuch saw him no more but the Letter did not Acts 8.29 and 39. Rom. 8.11 Isa 61. Luk 4.18 Acts 1.8 And the Spirit it self beareth witnesse with our Spirits that we are the children of God c. Rom. 8.16 1 John 3.24 Isa 48.16 Pallard thou water Baptizer and all you Water Baptizers that say the Letter and the Spirit is one or inseparable here your ignorance of God and Christ and the Spirit is seen that you have the Letter but not the Spirit and stands in need to be taught what be the first Principles of Religion though you take upon you to be teachers of others you are yet dull of hearing and knoweth neither the power spirit nor holy Ghost Church Faith hope election overseers made by the holy Ghost nor the annointing nor yet the true fear that saith the Letter and the Spirit are inseparable and is a History as thou Pallard said who also said that judgement was not committed to Christ whilest he were in the world and Christ himself said that for judgement was he come into the world that they that saw not might see and that they that saw might be made blinde John 9.39 And thou here would make Christ a lyer that saith he had not judgement committed to him whilest he was in the world and he said for judgement he came into the world but thou that sayes thou sees art now sound blinde and ignorant of the Mystery that saith the Letter and the Spirit are inseparable and calls it a History but thou are found the lyer and the Antichrist and knowes not the Spirit who are not in the Doctrine of Christ and so hath not God 2 Iohn 9 and thou lyer and all lyars are for the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone as the Scripture saith Rev. 22.15 Rev 21.27 Rev. 20.8 Therefore Pallard stop thy mouth and all in thy nature who are out of the Light and out of the Truth and silence deceit I charge thee in the presence of the Lord as I said to thee when thou went forth to go away from that place for I shall be a witnesse for the truth against thee and thy deceit before the judgement seat of Christ and to that in thy conscience shall I be witnessed which doth convince thee of sin and check and reprove thee in secret thou said three times that I denyed the Scriptures to manifest thy lyes when it was proved by the Scriptures and witnessed to the contrary there evidently before thy eyes as many can witnesse and that within thy conscience will witnesse the same that which reproves thee for sin and evill and checks thee in secret which lets thee see the deceit of thy heart and maketh manifest subtilty and craft which is acted in that nature contrary to the light but the Lord taketh the wise in their own craftinesse as it is written and so was thou taken in thy snare thy self about thy water-baptisme that thou could not get loose though thou make it thy idoll which thou so much takes pleasure in but thy image would not abide the fire and the hammer at that time but was ready to break all in pleces but thy works and every mans works in thy nature shall be tryed by fire and all that will not abide the fire shall be burnt for every mans works shall be made manifest whether it be silver gold precious stones wood hay or stubble that he buildeth for the day shal declare it because it shall be revealed by fire and the fire shall try every mans works of what sort it is and his works that will not abide the fire must be burnt and he himself suffer losse as thou art like to do and all in thy nature for the wisedome of this world is foolishnesse with God for it is written he taketh the wise in their own craftinesse as thou wast taken in thine and thy Babylonish building is known with the Light it is seen and comprehended and with the Light to be condemned and if any of those builders in thy nature be saved it must be so as by fire 1 Cor. 3.12 13 14 15 and 19. and 20. Thou couldest not witnesse that thy water baptisme did wash away sin neither couldest thou witnesse that thy sins were washt away by it but were