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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44811	Truth lifting up its head above slander in an answer to Thomas Jackson, late priest of Stoke in Sussex, his lying paper which he left in the north of England / by Francis Howgill ; whereunto is added something by way of letter from another hand to the said T.J. shewing the reasons why it is meet to publish the same at this time ... ; likewise a brief rehearsal of some remarkable passages out of E.B. his book called Satan's design defeated.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.; Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662. Satans designe defeated.	1663 (1663)	Wing H3186; ESTC R178363	18,130	24

beget a true Repentance in thee But like evil men and seducers thou growest worse and worse deceiving and being deceived still continuing in thy old course of backbiting railing and secret smiting the Innocent And because the Judgment of God hath reached thee in some measure according to the Word of the Lord by his Servant aforesaid in his said Answer even so as thou canst not now vent thy devilish Persecution openly in a Pulpit yet still as I have heard thou takest occasion by creeping into houses and corners when thou canst but get together a company of silly women laden with sins and led away with divers lusts then thou takest opportunity to vent thy old Lies and Blasphemies afresh against God his Name his Truth his Tabernacle and them that dwell in Heaven calling the Truths of God Popish Tenents and they that hold the same Hereticks when as it is thou thy self and thy Presbyterian Brethren that do hold such things and not the innocent People of God called Quakers As witness 1. Your denying the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles which they held forth preached up pressed after and attained unto in this life viz. A freedom from sin and Perfection As these Scriptures following do testifie and bear witness unto How shall we saith the Apostle that are dead to sin live any longer therein Rom. 6. 2. knowing this that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve sin for he that is dead is freed from sin ver 6 7. Being then made free from sin ye became the servants of Righteousness for when ye were the servants of sin ye were free from Righteousness but now being made free from sin and become Servants to God ye have your fruit unto Holiness and the end everlasting life ver 18 20 22. What can be more plain And then again He that committeth sin is of the Devil for the Devil sinneth from the beginning For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the Devil Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God 1 Joh. 3. 8 9. And so for Perfection Be ye therefore Perfect saith Christ even as your Father which is in Heaven is Perfect Mat. 5. 48. We speak Wisdom among them that are Perfect saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 2. 6. And he gave some Apostles and some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pastors and Teachers what to do why mark for the Perfecting of the Saints for the Work of the Ministry for the Edifying of the Body of Christ till we all come in the Unity of the Faith and of the Son of God unto a Perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ Ephes. 4. 11 12 13. And this was the end of the Apostles preaching to present every man Perfect in Christ Jesus Col. 1. 28. And this is the end of all Scripture even that the Man of God may be Perfect thorowly furnished unto all good works 2 Tim. 3. 16 17. For the Law made Nothing Perfect but the bringing in of a better hope did viz. Christ by the which we draw nigh unto God Heb. 7. 19. For by one Offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified Heb. 10. 14. What can be more plain And ye are come unto Mount Zion and unto the City of the living God and the heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of Angels to the General Assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in Heaven and to GOD the Jvdge of all and to the spirits of Just men made Perfect Heb. 12. 22 23. But your denying of this Truth sheweth you have made a league with Sin Death and Hell for as long as you live you teach others to do so too telling them they must not look to be free from corruption and sin while they live here The Consequence of which Doctrine of yours must in the end bring in that Popish Tenent of Purgatory For if Perfection and freedom from sin is not attainable unto in this life as you say on the one hand Nor no unclean person or thing can enter into Heaven the Kingdom of God in the life to come as the Scriptures of Truth say on the other hand Eph. 5. 5. Rev. 21. 27. Then tell me when and where must the time and place of cleansing be must it not be in a middle place and a middle time between Earth and Heaven and between this life and the life to come and so equal to the Papists Purgatory If this be not the Consequence of this your Doctrine let the wise in heart judge Again witness 2. Your maintaining the lawfulness of Swearing now under the Gospel against the express words of Christ and his Apostles to the contrary who saith But I say unto you Swear not at all what more full neither by Heaven for it is Gods Throne nor by the Earth for it is his Footstool neither by Jerusalem for it is the City of the great King Neither shalt thou swear by thy head because thou canst not make one hair white or black But let your communication be yea yea nay nay For whatsoever is more then these cometh of evil Mat. 5. 34 35 36 37. And the Apostle James saith But above all things swear not neither by heaven neither by the earth neither by any other Oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay lest you fall into condemnation Jam. 5. 12. which is plain without all exception And whether is not that an Antichristian and Popish Tenent to put constructions and meanings upon plain places of Scripture contrary to the mind of Christ and his Spirit which wrote them which are so plain that none that are simple-hearted can oppose or evade Again witness 3. Your former taking and now pleading for and justifying that Popish maintenance of Ministers by Tythes which in its first Institution in the time of the Law when it was in full force was appointed for the Levite because he had no part nor Inheritance among his brethren and therefore he was not to be forsaken nor forgotten and for the Stranger and the Fatherless and the Widow that they might eat and be satisfied Deut. 14. 27 28 29. and so there was no lack among them But you plead for it now under the Gospel and that by the same Law which Law Christ hath since ended and also changed that Priest-hood and disanulled that Commandment by which it was both taken and given Heb. 7. And the Stranger and the Fatherless and the Widow have little or no benefit by it at all from your hands neither are our streets free from Beggers and besides they are taken by you who have great Inheritances in the Land and yearly Revenues besides Again in the first Institution of Tythes they were all