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A89850	Satans design discovered: vvho under a pretence of worshipping Christs person in heaven, would exclude God and Christ, the spirit and light, out of the world: and that he should no more dwell in his people as he hath done, till Doomsday, that so he might rule in the hearts of men and women, unrevealed, while the world endures, onely under the name of God and Christ, talked of at a distance, that he may rule in the creation, exalted above God. Clearly laid open in an answer to Thomas Moor, who calls his book an Antidote against the spreading infections, &c. Wherein is discovered the crooked ways the winding Serpent takes to save his head, and reproach the truth with lies, that by any means he might make people believe that a lying spirit is among the Quakers, but is found within him. With 48. lies, taken out from three times as many, and sent back to be proved by the founder of them, T.M. Also some particulars, what the Quakers holds ... / By a servant to truth, called James Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing N313; Thomason E857_6; ESTC R202989	34,304	48

SATANS Design discovered VVho under a pretence of worshipping Christs Person in Heaven would exclude God and Christ the Spirit and Light out of the world And that he should no more dwell in his people as he hath done till Dooms-day that so he might rule in the hearts of Men and Women unrevealed while the World endures onely under the name of God and Christ talked of at a distance that he may rule in the Creation exalted above God Clearly laid open in an Answer to Thomas Moor who calls his Book an Antidote against the spreading Infections c. Wherein is discovered the crooked ways the winding Serpent takes to save his head and reproach the truth with Lies That by any means he might make people believe that a lying Spirit is among the Quakers but is found within him With 48. Lies taken out from three times as many and sent back to be proved by the Founder of them T. M. Also some Particulars what the Quakers holds concerning the presence of God Christ Spirit Light Scripture and what alone makes it profitable True Ministery perfection who can and who cannot receive the things of Gods Spirit with the Ground and cause of all Errors and Sects laid down in plain short words but received and maintained in the everlasting truth who is now manifest to withstand all opposers By a Servant to Truth called James Nayler Let the lying lips be put to silence who speaks things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous for judgement is laid to the line and righteousness to the plummet and the hail shall sweep away thy refuge of lies He that is first in his own cause seemeth Just but his neighbor cometh after and findeth him out London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black Spread-Eagle near the West end of Pauls 1655. Satans Design discovered THo Moor Thou call thy book a discovery of a lying Antichristian Spirit in some of those called Quakers which thou hast set forth to blind the world from seeing thy own Antichristian lying doctrine thou was found in when we was with thee and whereof thou was reproved by the Spirit of truth and thou confounded which is the cause of all this fome mire and dirt which like the Sea thy rage casts up in which thou hast more fully laid open to all that are in the Spirit of Christ that thou art that Antichrist and lyer and false-accuser which thou would accuse us with and so the more the Serpent sties in the leaves the more discovered blessed be our light for ever dost thou thinke to hide thy selfe by accusing thy damnable doctrine upon us or to broach thy denialls of Christ the more hiddenly by accusing us to deny Christ which is the thing for which we declare against thee and hast made it thy great work in thy booke to deny the Father and the Son in the Saints and ever amongst to blind people that they should not see thy ends thou falsly accuses us to deny them suudry times in thy booke possessing people that we deny and Preach down the person of Jesus of Nazareth of the seed of David the worke of redemption wrought for us in his own person as tipes shadows or figures of the true Christ which is to befound in some other thing that we preach this down as the Apostles preached down circumcision temple sacrifies this thou gathers from my letter I wrot to thee which thou hast printed because I said the flesh of Christ is the food of my inward man To which accusation I say the Lord be Judge betweene me and that lying murtherous Spirit whether I own any other righteousnesse than that everlasting righteousnesse of God wrought in the person of Jesus Christ of Nazereth his suffering resurrection and ascention according to the Scriptures and that endures from generation to generation and all inherits that same righteousnesse as by faith they receive the same Jesus and further I say let all modest Christians who reads that letter Judge what ground thou hast to conclude any such thing against me and so be thou Judged with all honest hearts as thou hast dealt therein and all the rest of thy lies and slanders cast upon us in thy book And for their sakes who else might have beene led to speake evill of that they know not I rejoyce that letter is come to light And thou thy lies and confusions art revealing from thy own pen which many would scare have believed from another so that if any who know any thing of Christ within read thy book they may throughout thy book see thy worke who having denied the Father and Son in thy selfe what crooked waies thou takes to thrust him out of the world a so which was ever Satans worke who can never be quiet in his Kingdom so long as Christ appeares in any of his Saints on earth to witnesse against him but could he limit him only into Heaven and perswade people never to waite sor his appearance in their hearts then might he rule the creature without controule let and set at his pleasure for he knows none can reveale him though in the Temple of God he sit in the hearts of people but the brightnesse of Christs coming in his light into the hearts where he is so he sets his Ministers to Preach Christ without in literall tradition that so he may keepe his house in peace within and so keepe God out of his Temple and dwelling place which is the bodies of his Saints but now the Lord is comming and taking people to himself whom he is clensing and some he hath clensed and is in his dwelling place praised for ever and in whom he beares witnesse against the Devill and his doctrine in the great assemblies and many are inclining to the voice of the Shepheard of their souls and the day is come that the Prince of this world must be judged and all his shews and likenesses wherein he hath shewed himselfe to be as God exalted in the Temple of God above all that is called God and the mystery of iniquity is revealed and revealing on the Head of all ungodliness and deceiveableness which he hath wrought in men all this time of the mystery of iniquity since men have denied the Spirit of truth and by it to be guided and have chused their imaginations instead thereof And now his Ministers of all sorts is hard put to it and he hath put into their hands all the old armour wherewithall he used in former ages to fight against the appearance of Christ and all his Kingdom is up in armes with such weapons as they have bestirring themselves against the Lambe in whomever he appeares the grosser sort with stones and clubs the greater sort with whips and prisons and cruell bonds another sort swearing and for swearing against the innocent that they might roote him out of the earth and the Head of the Serpent is making refuge of lies and slanders thereby to

The annointing that you have received abideth in you And you need not that any man teach you but as the same annointing teacheth you of all things and is Truth and is no Lie and even as it hath taught you you shall abide in him And this thou shamest not to wrest That they need no man teach them that teacheth otherwise Oh how fain would'st thou keep blind the heart and keep people without The Serpent knowes the blindness of the heart is the sole cause of the Creatures being alienated from the Life of God and so given up to all lasciviousness and uncleanness with greediness Ephes 4. 18 19. And the Light in the Heart is the onely thing that reveales the Gospel and gives the Light of the Knowledg of the Glory of God therefore he labours to keep people for looking for this Treasure in their Earthen Vessels 2 Cor. 4. to the 8. ver And in this work thou stands stoutly to thy Master to whom thou art fallen To the fifth Query What and where the Comforter is Somewhat what he is thou speakest but in the Heart thou dare not confess him least thou should destroy thy own Kingdome though none on Earth ever had him any where else since he ascended and so they gave their Testimony Gal. 4. 6. Ephes 3. 17. which thine is contrary who would limit him above the Clouds whom the Saints had dwelling in their bodies 1 Cor. 6. 19. But this is not known where the Man of Sinne and Son of Perdition sits in the Temple of God exalted above God letting and opposing the appearance of Christ which should reveal him In thy Answer to the sixth Query which asketh whether any of the servants of God may expect his word from his own mouth To this thou an werest No shewing thy self to be one of those who hast thy Word from thy Neighbour and not from the mouth of the Lord And here I know thou speakest thy own Experience but why dost thou bely others whom thou canst not judge as that Timothy had not the Word from the mouth of the Lord who had the gift in him which was given by Prophecie and that was from the mouth of the Lord immediate 1 Tim. 4 14. though first declared of by Paul And whereas thou faist that the Apostles are said to be the last in respect of such immediate furniture and mission I say that is the Liar that speakes thereby for to limit the Lord And I witness against thee who have received the Word from his own Mouth and immediate Calling And whereas thou faist Christ prayes for a blessing on no other immediate Messengers since I say that is another against which I witness who have found his Prayer and blessing upon the immediate Call to the same word As for the slander thou layst upon the Query I leave it to clear it self in the sight of all that read it For the seventh Query in stead of answering thou makest Lyes thereby the better to escape that so instead of answering thou may fall a slandering saying That he that sent the Queries sent them onely to them that deny the alone Teachings and yet makes it one of his Queries Whether they do so or no I say the Queries were not onely sent to them that deny the alone sufficiency of Gods Teaching as the Inscription may manifest neither is the Query Whether they do so or no but whether that Teaching of God alone be sufficient So into the Pit thou hast digged falls thy reproach with thee who hast no way to slander nor evade the Truth but by thy Lies so thy Refuge failes thee after all thy boasting In thy Answer to the eighth Query which askes what and where that word is that People shall hear behind them and where their Teacher is c. And this word thou thrusts out into another World and would thrust in instead thy self with the rest of thy Brethren such like because the word is read Teachers I say all that know this Prophecie of Isaiah and the end of it knows that it fore-tells of this day of the Lord wherein all the Children of the Lord shall be taught of the Lord Not is it like that Isaiah was prophesying of such as you who so earnestly Isay 59. 13. declared against such as sought for their gain from their quarters and called them greedy dumb Dogs and cryed down those who spoke a Divination of their own brain and not from the mouth of the Lord It 's not like he was prophesying of you who are found in all these things and much worse which he declares against for though you have a way to call your selves Ministers yet shall you never have Testimony from any Scripture as it was given out by Prophet or Apostle so long as you are found in that way of Worship Manner and Meanes which now you are in Not a line in this Scripture will serve you unwrested it comming from a contrary Spirit it no more owns you then you own it in Life and Practice For what thou sayst to the Ninth Query That the Word is not a Principle in men that believe or mind it not I say thou speakest thy own knowledge but some know better then to believe thee who knowes That where there is no Word there is no Life who knows him that upholds all by the Word of his Power which they that have no Word but the Letter knows little of To the Tenth Query What that voyce of Christ is which his sheep knowes And this thou makest to be the written Record so by thy Doctrine all that heares the Scriptures knoweth the voice of Christ but who reads Act. 13. 27. may see thy false Doctrine for wiser than thou had the Record that spoke of Christ but knew not the voices of the Prophers that spoke it but from the Record concluded to put him to death who was the Joh. 19. 7. Word so thou from the Letter art preaching him out of the World and slandring him in the World making people believe that who waits for the voice of Christ in any other way but in the Letter waits but for a delusion So all the Communion thou knowst with Christ is literal and thus thou preachest and all believes thee but who hath fellowship in Spirit with Christ sees thee deluded and thy delusion And for answer to that Clause How the voyce of Christ may be known from all strange voices thou sayst By its own Light the Word of God I say that is true if from Truth from thee it came but dost thou not mean thereby the Letter which all along thou callest the Word which a man may read all his life and therewith come amongst you Parish Masters and never discern the voyce of Christ though he may hear as many voices amongst you and several Imaginations as there are dayes in a Year Rom. 8. 10. but if he mind the Light and Spirit which brings to understand the voice

of Christ with that he would be brought to deny you all who are out of his way and have not his Word abiding in you To the Eleventh Query which asketh What that way in the Wilderness is which is called the way of Holiness and whether any may expect to finde it in these dayes To this thou saist Christ Jesus is the way the Truth and the Rom. 8. 10. Life and none can come to the Father but by him I say that these are true words but thou that makest it thy work to preach him out of the World till Doomes-day and confine him in the Heavens alone hast excluded him for being away to those now in the world to lead them out of the World which cannot ascend up into Heaven there to walk in him as a way so thou hast shut up the Kingdome against men as thy Fathers ever did And an Answer to the latter part of the Query which thou hast left unanswered must needs follow that none can expect to find such a way in these dayes nor till after they be dead where the Serpent perswades all his Hearers of their Righteousness And so of their Way also and so keeps his Way in the World In answer to the 12 Querie What that manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withall and whether there be any profiting but by it To the first part of this Querie thou saist it is that one Spirit which is in that one person of the Son of God and this person thou hast limited from the earth till domes day and doth not confesse to the Spirit manifest within the creature but tells of a distinct understanding of that Spirit and his testimony concerning Christ which is no more from thee but an imagination as all that knowes the Spirit may judge for there is no manifestation of the Spirit of God upon earth but what is within and those that it witnessed it manifested witnessed it dwelling in them but thy testimony is as far different as the Heavens is from the earth And for the two latter parts of the Querie whether it be not of it selfe an infallible guide and whether there be any profiting but by it least they should fal on thy head having named them thou tellest a lie and therewith makest an escape saying they are sufficiently answered before 1 Cor. 6. 19. To the 13 Querie what and where that worship of God in Spirit is and whether any can worship in Spirit but those that are borne of the Spirit and whether they so borne need any other guide in his spirituall worship but that Spirit of which they are borne and whether such worshippers have not been are now different from all other worshippers in the world And to the forepart of this thou addest some words as touching the Samaritans worship and Jews worship not to the purpose but as concerning whether any can worship in Spirit but such as are borne in Spirit and whether they need any other guide but that Spirit and all the rest of the Querie which is the most materiall to shew thy deceipts from these thou stealest away without any answer at all as though the naming them over againe was sufficient Art thou not ashamed to call these answers dost thinke all are as blind as thy selfe and those thy companions whom thou hast blinded This day is the Lord through the pride of thy heart covering thee with thy own shame and is discovering the skirts of the whore and her nakednesse appeares and shall more appeare that the fire may be kindled wherein to burne her and all her Merchants that have beene made rich through the abundance of her delicacy begin to bewaile and stand aftre of for feare of her torments crying for helpe yet shall the Nations which have beene deceived see her lewdnesse and be set free from her witchcrafts then shall the Lord be knowne present and praised To the 14 Querie which is about the light thou confessest it to be Jesus Christ which lighteth every man which cometh into the world but perceiving it against thy selfe doctrine and trading in the conclusion thou would bind it only to the enlightening of them who are beleivers and would deny the light to be the condemnation of the unbelievers saying it is not the coming Job 3. 15 of the light to them is the condemnation when Christ saith this is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men loved darknesse rather then light and If I had not come they had not had sin But thy testimony is contrary so they that beleive thee 2 Cor. 4. 6. make Christ a liar and they that beleives Christ makes thee a liar and thou would'st limit this light to be personall which all the Children of the light have know ne shining in their hearts which is the condemnation of them that know it not nor can the Children of darknesse judge of the light what it is who puts it afarre off yet thou that hates it hast it against thee though thou have it not with thee not being guided by it To the 15 Querie what the law of the Spirit of life is which made Paul free from the law of sin and death c. And instead of answering this thou fallest a wrangling with it and thou would make people believe that Pauls freedom he speaks of Rom. 8. 2. from the law of sin and death was not from that law that led him into captivity to sin which he complaines on and so thy first thing is to prove the Apostle a lyar who saies the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law oi sin and death for what the law could not do in that it was weake thorough the flesh the Son of God condemning the sin in the flesh that the righteousnesse of the law might be fulfilled in the creature by Christ Another thing where thou would prove him a liar is in that he saith he is made free from the law of sin and death and this thou also wholly denies as though thou knew his condition better then he did himselfe And thou callest the body of sin a law and the law of sin another law and such mangled stuffe not worth mentioning and for which thou hast no proof but thy blind Imaginations who would have 3 or 4 Lawes but not one of them in the Heart onely the Law of sinne and thou concludest that the Proposer of the Queries cannot make out what God hath revealed to him and thy ground is because he hath propounded these Queries as much as to say He that asked Questions of the Scribes and Pharisees could not make out his Revelations and this is thy reasoning whereby thou wouldst shew another mans folly Indeed to the blind guides he could never make out his Revelations nor can he now where he is but who wants abilities to make out any thing of the spirit of God and thinkes to

and so utters Psal 119 11. v. thy confusion who faist The grace of God that brings salvation instructs not to look for any light or spirit in them for direction when Christ saith He will send the spirit of truth who shall guide them into all truth which thou denyest to be grace who deniest that Spirit for teaching And whereas thou would make people believe that directing to the light within opens a gap to all Popery and corrupt Principles thou shewest thy self herein to be contrary to the spirit of God which spake in the Apostles who makes the cause of all wickedness to be blindness of the heart as thou maist read Eph. 4. 18. and that such are past feeling whose hearts are blinde and so given to all maner of lasciviousness to commit sin with greediness and thou that would deny the infallible Spirit of God for giving the sence of the Scriptures and saith we have the same ground for that as the Papists have for the Pope or Councel thou shalt know thy Blasphemy against that Spirit which thou speakest against without which no Scripture can be opened nor Act. 13. 27. Luk. 24. 45 the voices of the Prophets and Apostles known as also thy calling of Perfection a devilish Doctrine which is the Doctrine of Christ Matth. 5. 48. the Doctrine of his Apostles Col. 1. 28. yea the end of the whole Ministry Eph. 4. 11 12 13. and that is the spirit of the Devil in thee that calls it devilish Doctrine which spirit in thy Forefathers the Pharisees cal ed Christ a Devil and so thou dost his Doctrine and him in his servants and whereas thou tellest of some who in words confess Christ but in works deny him I say thou art he who hath him in thy mouth to talk on but denies him and his working any of his works of Righteousness in his Creatures now as in divers places of thy book thou hast done So this word thou hast spoken against thy self and so by thy own mouth thou art condemned And whereas thou would charge us with serving and magnifying our bellies I say with shame may thou speak it who could not abide from thy dinner but broke up thy dispute about it of which thou wouldst clear thy self formerly but in thy book art made to confess thy act and excuses it because thou had ridden ten miles and it was about an hour after noon I know it s not usual with the Parish Ministers to miss their meal time so long but that being an extra ordinary occasion and many strangers come much farther thou might have broken custome one houre had that beene all but was not an other thing in it thou may remember what thou was then to prove but could not and it was high time to breake off this many can witnesse and when it was alledged you was faint I said to John Wray let them that are faint go to eate but let not the meeting breake up to which he answered if we would not go away he must use his authority of his house whereupon I said we would not stay in his house against his mind yet notwithstanding thou art not ashamed to say in thy booke we would gladly have beene gon and charge us with magnifying our bellies be ashamed of thy worke who magnified thy dinner before the worke of God then in hand And thus the Devill would ever cast his works upon the innocent and have the reproach to lie on another this thouwould deny againe had not thou printed it thy selfe as many other things thou hast As for thy excuses thou makes for thy errours thou then uttered I say what thou then said if thou now deny I shall not contend I had rather heare an errour recanted then defended and persisted in As for thy saying that Paul saw Christ with his bodily eies I say they may beleive thee who hath not seene him and who knows no better for any proofe thou hast yet made thereof they may chuse but admit he did was it not a second appearance which thou affirmes cannot be till the end of the world and would accu e me herein as a blasphemer so see thy confusion but if thou be blinded others may see who owne the light which thou denies Thou askes four Queries First concerning God being in mee and how I say by his in-dwelling according to his promise 2 Cor. 6. 16. Second That no wicked man hath benefit by Christ nor any man till he can witnesse Christ in him I say Christ is that only benefit of all creatures and only Psal 69. 22. he that hath him hath the benefit but to all that receive him not he is the condemnation and to such all becomes curses John 3. 18. 19. John 15. 22. Third Whether the writing of the Prophets and Apostles be a dead letter I say without the Spirit it is nor can any without that Spirit that gave them forth understand them or know the voyces of Prophets or Apostles Luke 24. 45. Acts 13. 27. Fourth Whether Christ be any thing that beareth our sins in us as the propitiation I say Christ is he that beares the sins of all the world even them who know him not nor his propitiation and so it is that men are not consumed and where he ceaseth bearing the creature falls into Hell Psa 75. 3. 2 Cor. 1. 5. Rom. 8. 17. Col 1. 24. but thou that denies this art not thou ashamed to accuse us for murthering the just one in us if he cannot suffer in us how can we murther him in us yet he alone is our propitiation but none know this but where he is revealed And thou still goes about to prove the Scriptures to be the absolute ground and Medium of faith though before denied yet unwilling thou art that Christ should be the absolute ground and Medium yet canst thou there is not two absolute Mediums it must either be Christ or the letter that absolute and if the letter be the absolute means ehen faith may be had without Christ being the means find no Scripture to shut him out but thou brings that of 2 Tim. 3 the Scriptures are able to make wise through faith and this thou would make the ground of faith which cannot make wise without faith and such shamefull shifts art thou put to to get Christ out of his place and put the letter in his stead wherein the letter is against thee which saith Faith is the gift of God and Christ is the ground and medium of it so Antichrist can get no ground by the Scriptures to thrust out Christ unlesse he turne them quite contrary And whereas thou tells we do not worship the same God thou did confesse I say the Saint's God was ever a Spirit and dwelt in them in spirit but the Heathens had their Gods ever without them who could not be in them further than imagination so thou may see what God thou then confessed the chiefe

his sufferings which he suffered in his own person who is the everlasting sacrifice for of our selves without him in us we can do nothing but as he is the doer and sufferer in us But this the wantons knowes not nor the Beasts of the field who live in jollity but despise the chastisements of the Sonne who is perfected through sufferings in which he leads all his and suffers with them and beares up the world who know him not which shall account for his sufferings and piercings woundings and reproaches though now you regard not nor are sensible of your wickedness in your souls or bodies as thou sayst you are not And you are they that cannot confess Christ come in your flesh now to give you a sense of your sins and suffer with you in all your passage out of the world and so are the Antichrists John speaks of but this you would shuffle off by saying you consess him come at Jerusalem and there suffered in his own person I say so did those John speaks of and so doth the Pope now and all his Rabble from the highest to the lowest of you and if that confession in word he acknowledge of that spirit of God John speaks on then where is the spirit of Antichrist the Pope will quit himself by as large confession of words as you but neither he nor you brings forth his life into the word and so confess him in you in buffettings whippings mockings imprisonments and all other sufferings for his righteous name in you and his righteous nature acting you contrary to selfe this would destroy your Partonages pride and stateliness from the least of you who calles your selves his Ministers to the Pope who weares his treble Crown and yet calls himself a Servant of Servants and so you are of them who in words confess him but in works deny him but it is the appearance of Christ in his Saints in all Generations which hath judged Antichrist which ever put his appearance into another age afar off but now hath put his appearance into another world so far from owning him manifested in any measure in their mortall bodies that they hold it blasphemy for any to witness him where he is appeared and this is the spirit of Antichrist gone out into the world and now is in the world would exclude Christ out of the world that he with his polluted spirit under fair pretences might rule the world being got into the hearts of worldly men and women now preacheth up his Kingdom here for terme of life and to cheat the more promiseth freedom after death and this faith hath he begotten in the world and his Ministers preach it and uphold it with all their power both in practice and Doctrine and the people where the lust is entered love to have it so but blessed be the Lord who hath appeared and is appearing in the hearts of mortal men and women and there is manifest revealing the man of sin and ruling the Creation and he is known to be Antichrist whose heart is without Christ and cannot confesse him manifest come in Spirit into the heart of flesh but such who there see him judgeth Antichrist and his Doctrine and so thou art judged and thy worke in thy booke which is to preach Christ out of the heart and not to be manifested in the flesh and thou art he who would make God a liar who saith he hath given his Son into the world for a Leader and Ruler to the people of all generations that will beleive in his light and own him who is the same yesterday and to day and for ever and this is the Testimony of Jesus by thee rejected but by us received in Spirit and spirituall Ministation not in the letter but within in Spirit And thou goes on to tell how the teachings of the Father is held forth and thou saist first in all the 2 Cor. 3. 6. books of his Creation Chastisements and Changes c. Secondly more clearely and abundantly in the holy Scriprures To which I say there is another thing before both these the Fountaine of both these and that is the Spirit of God and light of Christ without a measure whereof neither of these can teach though the wisest men in the world have both these as is plaine by the Jews who far exceed all you in the knowledge of the letter and strictnesse of life thereto yet know not the voices of the Prophets nor Moses that gave it forth as is plaine Acts 13. 27. and these had the Scriptures and the Creation also but not having the Word in them by which the Creation was made was led by the Devill Iohn 5. 38 39. 40. Iohn 19. 7. to spend it upon their lusts and though they searched the Scriptures and thought to have eternall life in them yet they crucified him that was the eternall life and brought the Scriptures to do it by thy worke in thy booke nay the Disciples themselves though they had the Scriptures and the book of the Creation and had beene with Christ many yeares yet could not understand the Scriptures till by his Spirit he lightned their understandings as is plaine Luke 24. 45. and this was after his resurrection also and if all these came short till inspired with the Spirit and enlightned and 2 Pet. 3. 16 if all that are unlearned and unstablished with that Spirit wrest all Scriptures to their own destruction then it is plaine that neither Scripture nor Creation can be rightly used without the light of Christ and hough the Scriptures be profitable for the man of God furnishing him for good works yet when the man of Sin reads it he therewith pleads for Sin and furnisheth himselfe against all good works and this is seene largely in thy booke so I say the Spirit is before the letter and is given to lead into all truth without which the Devill turnes the letter into a lie and would tempt with it and 2 Timr 3. 16. 17. so thy literall teaching without the Spirit is little worth and though thy whole drift be all along to deny the Spirit and set up the letter in his stead and to that end hast reckoned up the Names of many of the Saints of God which makes little for thy purpose who were all men that were taught in Spirit need not to run nnto a John 16. 13. booke so seeke their knowledge but had the word of the Lord from Gods own mouth and there was the Oracle whereat they enquired which thou would it make the letter to be who never knew what it was to enquire at his mouth whose Ministry is literall Andthou tellest of many things and the deliverance of God from the envy that was against his people and this thou would set up for a teacher but canst not see the envy against them now and their deliverance as great as ever from all you Woolves that seeke to devour with open mouth thy blind

finde it by asking questions he had need of a better resolver then thee that had answered these Queries or any who deny the infallible spirit of God within them And thou tells of a new birth and the forming of Christ in men but what birth is that thou intends and what Christ must be formed within seeing thou hast in thy judgement and Doctrine confined the Son of God in Heaven while this World lasts art not thou preaching another Christ and birth let all who have the Son of God judge The last Query which askes what the grace of God is that brings salvation and hath appeared to all men this thou answerest with a slander saying that indeed we believe no such thing as the grace of God appearing to all men but put a fancy in the room of it c. Shewing thy heart void of grace and so more ready to slander then answer having more experience of the one then the other and no wonder though it be so when thou deniest the spirit of Light within to be the true Teacher and thou sayst that which is alwayes within cannot be properly said to be brought to a man wherein thou shewest thy sottishness Is not the life of man brought to him freely given of God and yet alwayes in him while he lives so natural reason may judge thee and he that gives the life gives the light thereby to keep the life unspotted though such as thou turn it into darknesse and hide it under the Bushel else would it reprove thy lying spirit who would make people believe that I deny the Scriptures because I bid blinde guides search the Scriptures and reprove you who cannot believe what the Scripture saith conderning the flesh of Christ and thou sayst the Ranters principles and ours are one and the greatest ground thon brings to prove it is by Richard Farnsworth writing a Book against them O thou dissembler art thou not ashamed to accuse us to be one with them and yet takes offence that we should write against them Indeed they are true friends to the Kingdom thou art pleading for in thy Book to wit sin for terme of life and strong props in that Kingdom so you can ill spare them and their faith and thine suits well for pleasure here and hereafter yet be ashamed of thy acculation and the ground of it for of above 40 Books written against the truth within this three or foure years I never see one written against the Ranters by your Parish-Teachers yet will you murmur at others which shews no little of your friendship and thou murmurest at Rich Earnsworth because he only blameth them for turning to a loose and prophane life and saist that once the pure law was set up in them to have freed them from Sin and thou saist if he know any thing that their principle led naturally to it but is this no blasphemy to charge the pure law and Judgment naturally to lead to sin for this is the principle that he knowes and speaks of and thou saist he ownes their principales and yet cries out against their grosse prophanes and Atheism so that to own the pure law and Judgment seemes to thee an offence and matter of accusation But saist thou this he doth because that is grosly scandalous and hinders others from harkning to their imaginations O thou devourer how dost thou cast out thy envie are these words becoming Christians thus wickedly to slander and is the pure law and judgment and the light within imaginations with thee thou art afraid this should be harkened to and therefore calls it the roote of all Atheisme and propanesse which the Apostles saith want of the light within and because of the blindnesse of the heart is people given over unto lasciviousnesse to worke all uncleanness with greedinesse Eph. 4. 18. and 19. So thou art an enemy to the Apostles testimony light and Spirit Law and Judgments and so art Antichrist out of thy own mouth and let the Apostles words judge thee without wresting And thy envie hath got an object of one about Norwich that pretended perfection whom thou saist yet lived secretly in uncleanesse along time if not in murther too for hiding it I say the woe is to him who hath given thee cause to blaspheme by departing our of the way of God which is perfect but let every sober Christian judge thee with Spirit thou art of what takest that advantage against the truth considering the wickednesse committed in your Parishes where you are Masters and from whom you have your hire which might stop your mouthes frō this glorying were it not that the Devill must rejoyce in his own work who could never get such an advantage against the truth since it begun to spread in the Nation So now he plies it with reproaches from all parts of the Nation which is no little sorrow to them that feare God nor will it be joy to you one day who aggravate it as thou dost adding murther to it which if thou know such a thing and conceale it the blood be upon thy head but it thou know not such a thing then a murderous slanderer thou art and thy own works shall judge thee in every honest heart who reades what thou hast published to all the world And for thy accusing us at our meeting for incivilities as for calling you liars Serpents Sots and such like I say if any did call you that you are not you are more innocent then they I justify no such thing but this I know and many other that was there that one of thy companions had his staffe up to have knock't me down in the yard gnashing at me with his teeth and narrowly I escaped that it was not so had you had any such carriage from us reason might have judged it uncivill but a Word from us is counted In offence when Actions from the world is counted none And thou would 't charge James Parnell with blasphemy who speaking of corrupt reason saith before that was I am I say thou here shewest what thou knowest of the inward man or being in the life of Christ Is not he that is born again of the immortal seed borne of that which before corrupt reason is art thou a teacher and calls this blasphemy Nay it is the blasphemer in thee that cannot own the voyce of Christ for if any thing of Christ speak in man it was before corrupt reason was and every one in their measures of Christ as they have received And for the name of Manifesterians which thou wouldest cast upon us for a slander and saist thou know'st not any called Manifesterians nor what manner of persons they apply that name to and said it thou never heard of any such thing that John Wray called you so in some letters I say then thou should have beene sent and not have Judged that thou heard not for the letter is yet a witnesse for us which came to mee above 60 miles from John

fright the rest whom he cannot get to joyne with him in this wickednesse seeking to perswade them that to waite for the appearance of Christ in them with his light and Spirit to guide them out of all this confusion is the most dangerous errour in the world and of all other to be avoided when as indeed all that are from that Spirits guiding are in errour and can be no other wise untill to that Spirit they turne therewith to be led out of errour and being more subtile then all the rest brings in Lies and false Accusations against others as though they was out of the truth but he a friend unto it when as all the friendship he intends when truly weighed is to make an eternal separation betwixt the Creature and the Creator and to keep God out of his dwelling place yea and as far distant as the Heaven is from the Earth as thou dost in thy Book who denies the possession of God in his Saints as thou dost in thy 32 page and in many other places in thy Book In thy 25 page confesses the Body to be the Temple of the Lord in which God primely and chiefly dwelleth and manifesteth himself in through the testimony of Jesus there received and thus with confusion saying and unsaying hast thou made up thy Book to the end that thou might keep people from the light of Christ perverting the Scriptures to wrong ends and making them speak quite contrary to the Spirit as that of Amos 2. 13. where God saith I am pressed under you as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves This thou would have people to believe that God said I will pross you as the cart is pressed with sheaves which is quite contrary and where the Spirit saith Christ in you speaking of the Saints in whom Christ dwelt thou turnedst it to Christ among you as he was among the Pharisees and where Christ saith The kingdom of God is within you that thou pervertest also to among you and this thou printest to all the world with many more such like of thy deceitful workings and pervertings too many to mention which all that read thy Book may see scarce one Scripture thou hast medled with which thou hast not sought to wrest and art not ashamed to accuse me for abusing the Scriptures who have but quoted the plain words without meanings at all nay so shameless is thy work in thy book that were it not for the simplicities sake which in many is deceived by such as thee I should leave it to discover it self as sufficiently it will do in the fight of the wise who compare but one part of it with another and not have written any thing unto it As also thy shameless denying what thou spoke before hundreds of Witnesses before whom thou denyed God to be manifest in the Creature then and that none had immediate call but the Apostles who was called by Christ personally before his Ascention And when I instanced Paul and Ananias Thou said Paul was in Heaven and saw him personally Thou said further that thou had not the same Testimony as the Apostles had which thou now turnedst to Timothy Further thou said also That the Scriptures are the absolute Rule and Medium of Faith and when I asked thee if God could give faith without them thou saidst Yea then I said They was not the absolute Rule and Medium then John Wray said I catcht at Words to which I answered If thou didst confess thy mistake I did not desire to make thee an Offender for a word and upon thy confession thereupon that thing ceased and I spake no more of it at that time which otherwise had not so passed Thou saidst further That Paul saw Christ personally with his bodily eyes after his Ascension Thou al so said I was a false witness in saying that I had seen Christ and said thou had never seen him as Paul did to which I said I believed thou had not Further thou said The benefit the drunkards have by Christ is that they enjoy that drink wherewith they are drunken Thou said also That there is something which is not of God which teacheth the Creature to deny sin with divers other such like things which then I reproved thee for and withstood thee to thy face before the people where thou couldest not deny it and writ to thee of it in faithfulness that thou mightest have considered thereof and have seen thy folly and not have envyed me for speaking the truth which thou could not then deny before the people neither then nor the next day But now the envious one being got up for these things thou art not ashamed to account me a Lyar which thou couldst not do to my face before the people here shewing thy self to be a Backbiter and false Accuser of the truth and the lye returned into thy own bosom where the Lyar dwells seeking to hide himself by accusing others In thy Epistle thou tellest of some abatement of bloody persecution in these times but whosoever sees the emnity of these days and your combining together against the innocent with your actings imprisonings whippings mockings stockings reproachings and false accusings with all the multitude of your invented Envies of which thy Book is not the least they may see such a Generation of persecuters gathered from all Quarters against a poor despised People and persecuting for such things as never was since the World was created as witness all the Goals in the Nation and this mischievous lying Book of thine whereby thou would adde affliction unto those Bonds accusing us of denying Christ and preaching another Christ and another Gospel and another Spirit and many such blasphemous things from which we are clcar hast thou added unto the envy that is against us for all which thou must give an account amongst the rest when thou hast filled up thy measure And thou that callest it a Spirit of Antichrist to witness Christ bearing sin now in the body art one of those who never saw him whom thou hast pierced But did not he bear sin in thee though thou know him not thou had been in hell ere now and that thou shall know when his spirit leaves striving and his long-suffering is turned into Judgement which should lead thee to repentance And Christ appearing without sin to salvation is witnessed with all who have seen his appearance and that is the spirit of Antichrist which cannot confess him who goeth on in blindness and confusion as thou dost who faist there is not in man any light knowledge or understanding to make them sensible of their Idolatry and wickedness And in the next page faist Although the word be nigh them in their hearts What is not the word light and understanding where it is if it be minded it was so to the people of God who knew it in their hearts and by it was kept out of sin But thy testimony is contrary whose eyes are abroad

must leave behind them taking the same flesh and bones but not the same bloud But such confused work makes the Serpent when he would be preaching things which are hid from him It were bettet for thee and many such like to come down out of the Chambers of your Imaginations and sit at the seet of Christ and own the teaching of his Spirit and his Light that so thou may know what the bloud of Christ is from him by its effects then to stand teaching others thou knowest not what Come down into the dust and stop thy mouth thou vain Babler and exercise not thy self in things too high for thee and if ever thou come to know any thing of the Kingdome thou wilt see thy self shut out among the Pharisees and Sadduces who was jangling about the Resurrection with the Spirit of the Devil in them denying his Testimony Light and Spirit who is the Resurrection and lived out of his Doctrine as thou may read Mat. 23. And read thy self therein with the Light thou opposest only this difference they looked for him to come and thou sayst he is gone and not come again but neither of you own him present to judge rule and guide you So thy wayes is as far from his Doctrine and Practice as theirs was if not further though thou have got more words so greater condemnation And thou tellest much what need we have of Christ in the Heavens but didst thou know thy condition thou would'st see as much need of him here also to guide thee out of the World and these Pharisaical wayes For who hath him not with them to lead out of the World and give victory here will finde little benefit by his being in Heaven and this thou and many more will know when he comes to Judgment who little mind his fellowship here but joyn with the Enemy to preach him out of the World because he beareth Witness that the deeds thereof are evil so by this the Devil gets his work done in Earth preaching of a Christ in Heaven and the Creature knowes none to redeem from it no nearer then after death Thou sayst none yet hath ceased from their own workes I say none that are in thy workes have who is pleading for sinne and denying the Spirit of GOD to work in thee thou must needes be in thy own workes but what is that in thee that judgeth all other and yet denyest Christ in thee that is the Lyar from the beginning and by the Spirit of God which worketh in me in which is my Rest do I bear Witness against him so to be and a thousand in the Nation that can witness the same who are brought to Rest in his everlasting Work and will But this no Hireling knowes nor can judge of though you may read of that condition in the Letter Thou accusest me for belying the Apostle in saying he preached the Word Faith in the heart Rom. 10. I say let read any the 8. 9. Verses of that Chapter who knowes either Word or Faith or Words of the Letter and judge if the Apostle there did not preach both Word and Faith in the Heart and so let the Lye return into the bosome of the Lyar from whence it came Thou sayst God did not impute the Trespasses of the World to them but caused them to meet together on him I say if God impute not sinne to the World nothing else can condemn them this opens a large gap to the Workes thou art pleading for but were thou not blind thou mayst see the Apostle speakes of such as received the Word of Reconciliation but for the rest you shall know that sinne will be imputed where it is committed And thou makest much ado to prove that the Disciples of Christ nor any other should see him any more after his Ascention while they lived If any know no more but to believe thee and thy ground is because Christ said the dayes would come that they should desire to see one of the dayes of the Son of Man and shall not see it I say he told them also that they should mourn in the while of his absence but he would come again and their mourning should be turned into joy when the manchild should be born into the world and commanded them Act. 1. 4. 8. John 16. 19. 20 21 22. John 16. 16. they should not depart from Jerusalem but wait for that they had heard of him then should they be witnesses unto him to the utmost parts of the earth which was accomplished at his second comming in the spirit according to his promise which thou would deny his appearance unto which there was such gathering and is such gathering blessed be the Father who hath hid it from the Serpent who spends his time in jangling about it but never the wiser yet to the Babes it is revealed And thou sayst that our boasting of some inward ight or spirit to be listened to and received must needs be another spirit and bring in another Jesus a contrary anointing I say the Apostles preached the spirit and light within shining in their hearts to give the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus and this Treasure they had in the earthen vessels and 2 Cor. 4. 6 7. did they preach a false Christ or a contrary spirit or anointing though thou know not the Christ they preached nor that spirit blush for shame to utter thy blasphemy against the spirit of God and his light which none knows but within them and which all hearkens to in spirit and preacheth from but the Ministers of Antichrist whereof thou hast proved thy self one sufficiently who knowes not the Law written in the heart nor the testimony of Jesus which is the spirit of Prophesie because thou ownest no light in thee And thou sayst there is not another manner of preaching to be given then that of the Apostles to the end of the world I say then all Hirelings and Parish-masters stop our mouthes who are out of that manner yea and matter also for the Apostles was not Ministers of the Letter but of the spirit which thou hast sufficiently denied in thy Book and if there need no more preaching then what the Apostles preached you may spare your pains and the people their mony for that is preached and printed already and they have suffered for it so let it alone and take not mony for making it worse Thou pretendest to answer some Queries but first thou casts over them thy reproachful lying poysonous Tongue as thou hast done by my Letter as nothing that comes from the truth can escape thy envy and slander saying that they reproach the acknowledgement of one that died for all and all the way scoffe at the promise of his coming and many such like filthy lies whcih the least modesty that reades the Queries may see thy shameless impudency calling us unclean spirits when thy venom defiles all thou meddles with

that comes from our hands and when thou hast vented thy wickedness would father it upon us as though we provoke thee when it comes from the Root of the corrupt Tree the old Murtherer and Lyar and thou tellest of many changes in thy thoughts and many Reasons thou layest down of answering or not answering of them shewing thy selfe not to be guided by any stable spirit but turning according to thy Imaginations and before thou begin to answer that which thou callest the inscription thou first turneth the sence of them into a lie as thou dost by all our writings and by the Scriptures for there is not any thing given out by the spirit of truth that Satan can encounter withall till he hath moulded it anew in his own Language and when thou hast thus done thou fightest with the Lye thou hast made and having got the thing into thy own Kingdom thou casts out thy mire and dirt and yet makes a place to hide thy head as though thou was about the work of God Is it not sufficient to print our words as we speak them and so let the wise judge of them whether they be truth or no but thou must pervert them and then judge them Is this to do as thou would be done by but it is as all the Serpents Generation have done to the words of Christ the true seed whereby the enmity is seen what changing have you Parish-masters as your fore-Fathers made of the Scriptures since the Apostles time and yet is there not a verse of them will serve your turn without wresting or meanings but it is your Trade as you use it by which you get your living and means by which you bear rule and having not the word in your hearts you would soon be worn out had you not the Letter to change and alter thereby to devise novelties new notions and opinions by which you divided the Nations into so many Sects as they are one ready to devoure another and the strongest carries it but now the Lord hath appeared in a few despised ones to bring forth the same Life Way and Practise that he was formerly in the Saints and this you cannot wrest nor imitate but you must lay down your stately pride and worldly pomp to come into their wanderings anst reproaches and this strikes at the Root from which all arrogancy exaltations and opinions springs and none of you can any more walk in this way then the Camel go through the eye of a needle whiles you stand in your worldly Glory So all are gathered from all quarters against this The Head which is most subtle devising lies and laying slanders as though we denied God and Christ and Spirit Gospel and Scripture things that never entered into our hearts thereby to make way for the taile to come upon us with his murthering Instruments that if by any means he may destroy the Heire now appearing to take his inheritance And though we be counted the greatest offenders that ever was in the world by the heads of all Sects yet is there not one of you that is able nor willing to judge us and our practise and judgement with the practise of the Saints in which they walked and plain Scripture without meanings for this the Serpent knowes that which is given out from the Spirit of God will not condemn those who are guided and acted by that Spirit till he hath changed the Scripture one way and our words another way and so to make a jerre that he may murther under under protence of godliness by consent for under that pretence hath the Lambs of Christ ever suffered having wrested their words but their practise they could never touch nor can touch the fault being ever crying out against their evils and shewing forth the Life of Christ and his work in them and here the Murtherer first entered wherefore Cain slew his Brother so thou mayst read thy selfe deeply engaged to what power thou hast yet as blind as ever persecution was thinking thou dost John 16. 2 3. God good service not knowing the Father nor the Son in thee which is the very cause for which thou opposest because we witness him and his name in us but would you come to Christs Rules you might come to see your selves such a Ministry as Christ never owned and according to your own confession nor ever called but have called one another and run un ent and do have not turned people from their sins but are pleading for it which Christs Ministers never did so may you judge the Tree by its fruits which is brought forth amongst you And instead of answering plainly thou goest about making thy distinctions and crooked wayes as concerning Gods teaching dividing into numbers when God is but One and his way and teaching One but the World is in the many wayes And thou tellest of Christ bearing your sins in his body to the Tree not leaving them to be born in your bodies I say didst thou minde his light and faithful witnesse in thee which thou preachest against thereby thou mightest see thy sins not nailed to the Tree but the lyar backbiter and false accuser and envious one at liberty yet in thee not bound much more uncast out or put to the Crosse foaming out his own shame though Christ have suffered for thee and his long-suffering be yet in thee bearing up else thou had been in Hell with the envious one whom thou art serving though this thou know not and therefore sin is no burthen to thee in the sence of thy soul or body as thou sayst but like the Colt or the wild Asse upon the Mountains not subject to the yoke nor sense of sin in soul or body not knowing him whom thou piercest who is slain from the 1 Pet. 4. 13. Colos 1. 2. 4. 2 Cor. 1. 5 Phil. 3. 10. Collos 1. 24. 1 Pet. 3. 14 15. 4. 16. Rom. 2. 4. Rom. 8. 17. John 15. 5. foundation of the world a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief with him to partake in his sufferings that are yet behinde with him to have fellowship therein this thou scornest with thy light minde who would share in his joy but not in his sufferings which the Saints have done and do But thou which denies Christs sufferings within what suffering was that the Apostles exhotred if it was not Christ that was the sufferer in them with whom they was to have fellowship and to be joyned and rejoyce in It was either the suffering of Christ the sufferings of Satan or self-sufferings if of Satan what is it for but when he cannot get his will in his lusts and envy if of self what is it worth or able to prevail with or please God or what can selfe suffer nay it is the long-suffering of Christ that leads to repentance and we know that none can be heirs of his glory but who suffer with him neither can any suffer with him but by the vertue of

Wrays house with an invitation to meet those called Manifesterians though thou be so shamelesse in thy book as to deny and faist thou dost not beleive that we was sent for and so with thy false beleife took occasion to slander us with buglary and so not having the Spirit in thee to bridle thy tongue nor faith in thy heart thy tongue runnes without guide after thine envy and being told of it denies it and calls others liars and because thou hast Titled thy booke a lying and Antichristian Spirit discovered in some of those called Quakers I shall gather up some of thy lies from thy own mouth and send them back into the old vessell where the liar sits till thou make proofe of them First That we did signifie our resolution not to come to the meeting at John Wrays and then came to it 2. That we acknowledge not the grace of God in the death and resurrection of Christ to be the foundation of Salvation 3. That we would lay another foundation 4. That we murther the Just One in us 5. That we move people to take heed to the Light within them to take them off from looking to Jesus 6. That we imagine the person of the Son of God to be some further type of the true Light 7. That we imagine Christ to be something naturall in every man naturally 8. That we never direct any man to look for any supernatural Grace 9. That we are of the number that Judge no act of Sin to be of it self sinful but to him that judgeth it so 10. That I said that which taught to deny some gross sins yet doth not herein teach to deny Sin but to deny God 11. That we deny the power and root of Godliness under ashew of Godliness 12. That we are enemies to the Cross of Christ 13. That we are enemies to his personal sufferings for the taking away of sin 14. That we are enemies to the love and glory of God appearing in the face of him 15. That we seek to undermine this in pretence of magnifying Christ in us 16. That we glory therein 17. That we slight the Scriptures 18. That my intention was to make a nullity or shadow of the person Jesus of Nazareth and of those works done in his own Body 19. That we stormed at thee because thou didst not fall down and worship Rie Farmsworth 20. That we would cast off all the Scriptures if we did not fear is would be disadvantageous to our design 21. That I have in my heart wholly rejected the faith of that one person of the Son of God in our Nature 22. That our designe was to marie the visage of the Son of man 23. That we were glad of the occasion to be gon out of Iohn Wrays house 24. That Iohn Wray invited us againe to his house after we was put out 25. That I would pervert the doctrine of the Apostles 26. That I slandered our Saviour himself 27. That I pervert the Gospel of Christ 28. That I preach and bear witness of another Jesus 29. That I move you to listen to another Spirit 30. That I bring another Doctrine then that the Prophets and Apostles spake of 31. That the Jesus I bear witness of is not already come in flesh 32. That I charged you with denying Christ come in the flesh because you affirmed his appearing to put away sin in his own person Jesus of Nazareth 33. That we signified all to be strangors to the coming of Christ that would not worship us 34. That I moved you to receive another Spirit then that which is in and with the hearing of faith 35. That we cry down the testimony of Jesus as it is declared in the Apostles Doctrine 36. That we curse others for but calling our Doctrine into question 37. That we command them to wait for some other imdiate teaching 38. That I bring another Gospel then that the Apostles had preached 39. That I exclude my self from the Prayers of Christ for his blessing upon his Ministration 40. That I preach down that manifestation of God in the flesh of that one person as for us 41. That indeed we believe no such a thing as the grace of God appearing to men and bringing salvation to them as wrought in Christ 42. That we teach men to follow their own Spirit and have seen nothing That it is not unusual with us to pretend highly against a thing when in our hearts we justifie or allow it 43. That we pretend as much for a thing that in heart we are enemies to 44. That our bottom Principles are one with the Ranters 45. That we at the best seek to establish our own righteousness but stumble at the Righteousness of Christ 46. That our Principles have the same fruits in them as to gross Atheism or Blasphemy of as high a nature as the Ranters 47. That our mortification stands in despising Dominion speaking evil of Dignities casting off all Civil and Natural respects where due and the like 48. That we speak lies in hypocrisie having our conscience seared with a hot iron These and many more such not orious lies that the least modesty would be ashamed to have uttered were it not that thou arr given up to heap up wrath with greediness and vomit out thy own shame sure such a peece of work never came from any where the least principle of God is minded if it had been all layd open but I am weary with raking amongst this uncleannesse which from thee proceeds and shall leave the rest to any who with the eye of judgement reads thy book who may finde three times more thy lying slanders which secretly thou hast shot out surely that Fountain is full which hath such violent streams but the man-child is safe neither should I have mentioned thus much of thy uncleanness had not I been moved to clear the truth in the sight of simple ones and lay the lies upon the founder And let any honest heart see what thou art who would accuse the Quakers for lyars for speaking and writing truth to thee which thou canst not disprove any way but with lies and slanders to keep people from believing and truly you are in this condition who call your selves Ministers now that the light is come to discover you that you have but these two resuges lies carnal power but most of you who have proved both these hold the latter the better shield yet you tell people our way is nought but error but when any who live in this you so call comes into your high places your truth will not defend your practice and confound their error without a paire of stocks or a prison you have no minde that your people should have this error confounded otherwise then with accusing them falsely behind their backs when you have got them fast for reproving you For it is come to this now that your Doctrine must not be questioned neither in your time nor after but

upon pain of imprisonment and that without any limit of time yea many for but looking at you and not speaking a word such is the strength of your weapons which in the Ministers of his spirit was mighty through Christ and needed not Clubs and Prisons to defend it so look upon your work and weigh it with truth and the Saints practice and see how they agree for no further are you his Ministers then you can own the Saints life though you can change their words to your wills yet their lives you cannot and by that you must be tryed And seeing it is the great work in these dayes to separate Christ and his light word and spirit as far as the Heavens and the Earth never to come neerer till the end of the world and thou scofs at infallibility calls perfection a Doctrine of Devils and pleads for sin while men lives and much such like Doctrine against Christ I shall lay down these particulars following as I have received them from the Lord which through the strength of God I shall stand by against thee and all thy Generation that shall oppose your selves 1. That the light of Christ is the first principle that shews a man his condition and leads to Christ the Saviour and without it the Gospel is hid from every Creature living and without it none can read with profit 2. That though Christ Jesus in himself hath suffered and satisfied the whole will of God for all the world yet none but who by faith in this comes to receive a measure of the same Christ in the same spirit and power and life in them can have redemption by him from sin and death 3. That the word of God is spiritual and who hath it hath it in their heart and that none who hath it not in their hearts hath eternal life though they may have the letter as the Devil hath to pervert to wrong ends to plead for sin and tempt the sons of God 4. That none can understand the Scriptures nor know the voice of Christ in them but who have that spirit and light in them that gave them forth to open their understanding to know the mystery and life of them 5. That no man knowes his own heart but who first owns the light of Christ to search it and the same light that searches the heart gives light to know God and his glory 6. That the least measure of living faith that is not a fancy but stands in Christ Jesus is present power against all sin and the greatest power of Satan if the Creature abide faithful in it and run to no other helps but minde obedience in it 7. That no man can be a Minister of Christ nor preach him truly but who preacheth perfection and that is the end of his Ministry which thou calls a Doctrine of Devills 8. That there is not one particular of the worship you perform in your high places but it is added or altered from what it was when Christ appointed it and established it 9. That God and his word is now manifest in the bodies of his Saints in the same manner and as freely as formerly he hath been and that there he is a sufficient Teacher and shield against sin without any other help to all according to the measure of their knowledge of him present 10. That no man can receive the things of Gods spirit but who minde somewhat of God in them to receive it withall 11. That the least measure of Gods spirit is an infallible guide and without it no man knowes Christ nor can judge of any thing of God or his truth his Kingdom or the way to it or the Devil and his subtleties but lies open to be deceived in all things and to be led by men of corrupt mindes in whom the Devil is 12. That the ground of all Errors Sects and Opinions Heresies and blasphemies that are in the world is in being led from the guidance of this spirit and all live in error but who are guided by it but none ever errs who was guided by it alone nor ever shall These being the main things for which thou accuses us in thy Book having wrested them contrary to our judgement and practice thereby to darken the way of truth more dear to me then life to the end that all may finde it and rest to their souls I have laid them down as plain as I can as they are in Iesus in me revealed without any adding or diminishing as in the fight of God so when thou writes to oppose again let it be plain to the people whether thou owns of denies so the difference may be judged with the truly wise in heart and the ground of it and do not cast a mist over the truth as in thy book and yet dare neither own nor deny but secretly bite and devoure Also prove these lying slanders cast upon us or blame me not for calling them lies and discovering the father thereof Thou hast plowed wickedness and reaped iniquity and hast eaten the fruit of lies THE END ERRATA Page 3. line 13. for sties read stirs p. 21. l. 31. for our mouthes read your mouths p. 26. l. 5. for he acknowledgeth read be a Knowledge Page 52 line 3 for sent read silence and line 9 of the same Page for buglary read burglary