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A56434	A shield of the truth, or, The truth of God cleared from scandals and reproaches cast upon it by scandalous and reproachfull tongues which the devil in all ages did make use of, whereby he blasphemed the truth of God, striving to present it odious in the eyes and ears of all people, that so he might uphold his own kingdom, but the day hath made him manifest, & the Lord is come, & is coming to make war with him, and bind him, and cast him into the bottomless pit and all who bears his image, and under his dominion is written by ... Iames Parnel.	Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing P533; ESTC R20838	39,279	50

and Taxings and Wars and Imprisonments and Envy and Murder and the Persecutions of the Righteous all arises from proud Lucifer the Lust in man who would be honoured and all this is in the Fall and under the Curse but Mordechai could not bow to him in Hamon and therefore he sought to destroy him and informed the King against him and all the Jews in the Nation and said they were a scattered people and their Laws were diverse from all people neither did they observe the Law of the King Then he set up a pair of Gallows for Mordechai but Hamon was hanged on his own Gallows and was cast down to nothing and Mordechai is exalted in his stead So there is a time that Mordechai despised and Hamon exalted and there is a time that Hamon is cast down and Mordechai exalted and there is a time that Esau reigns over Jacob and there is a time that the elder serves the younger and there is a time that Pharoah rules and oppresses the Israelites but there is a time of Israels deliverance and Pharoah drowned in the sea So there is a time that Antichrist sits in the temple of God as God and saith he is God and Christ lyeth low in the Manger but there is a time that he must be cast down into the pit and Christ alone exalted He that can receive it let him but in all Ages the children of God could not bow to Lucifer nor his Image and this was the cause why Shadrach Mesech and Ahednego was cast into the fiery Furnace and this was the cause why Daniel was cast into the Lyons den but by the hand of his God whom he alone worshipped and honoured he was delivered and exalted and his Adversaries cast down in his place and this was the cause why the Prophets were alwaies persecuted and imprisoned and the Apostles who came to turn the world upside down and this is the cause now why the Ministers Messengers of Jesus Christ are imprisoned stoned stocked whipped and shamefully intreated whom the Lord is pleased immediately to call from their outward callings and countries and sends them abroad into several Countries to preach his name no more after the Flesh but after the Spirit and who knows him must know him no more after the Flesh but after the Spirit and those come to turn the world upside down being crucified to the world and the world to them and these cannot honour Lucifer nor bow to Lucifer nor worship his Image though there was a time when they did but that which was done in Egypt when they knew not God but now Lucifer and his Image is cast down and Christ alone exalted and the pure and perfect Law is witnessed which respects no mans person but God alone honoured and exalted and this we witnesse for amongst us there are no Superiours after the Flesh but Christ is the head and amongst those who was redeemed out of the world there were no Superiours but onely Christ the Head and all the rest fellow servants and he that would be the greatest should be the least he that respects persons commits sin and the Angel would not suffer John to bow to him but said he was his fellow servant and this we witnesse who are redeemed out of the kingdome of the Devil from amongst the children of this world into the kingdome of the Son who are crucified to the world and the world to us by the spiritual Crosse of Christ in which we joy and glory amongst whom there is no partiality nor respect of persons but all in union in one though ten thousand and here God alone is King and he alone is honoured exalted and worshiped no more after the flesh but after the spirit for we have no other God in whom our hearts delight and here proud Lucifer and his Image is cast out and here all his honors is thrown down and his breeding and manners and fashions and customes and words and wayes and worships which are after the Flesh and not after the Spirit whereby he sets up himself and causeth his Image to be worshipped and this is the cause why rages in his kingdome wheresoever we come and saith we are destructive to all Superiority and Magistracy and Ministry and Honour Breeding and Manners and turns the world upside down for he knows where Christ comes he comes to take his kingdome from him and cast him down into the pit and there he must be tormented quick and all who bears his image or his mark and these are some of his marks which he calls Nobility Gentility honour breeding manners and civility But true Nobility we own the seed of God is noble wheresoever it is born up and who can witnesse to the head of the Serpent bruised and the seed of God born up to reign and rule there is true Nobility there is true Gentility no more after the flesh but after the spirit and this is to be honoured for honour is due to this both in Magistrate or Minister Fisherman or Ploughman Heardsman or Shepheard wheresoever it rules without respect of person here fear to whom fear honour to whom honour and this is no more after the Flesh but after the Spirit And here all the true Prophets of God were Noblemen and Gentlemen sprung of the noble seed though of the Nobles and great ones of the earth they were disdained and reproached because according to the world they were of low degree some of them Ploughmen some Heardsmen some Shepheards and therefore they persecuted them and destroyed them yet they were gentle and bore all Christ was noble sprung of the noble seed though of the Great ones and Nobles of the earth he was disdained reproached and scorned to be the King of the Jews because according to the world he was of low degree and supposed to be a Carpenters sonne so they spit upon him and disdained him and crucified him yet he was gentle and bore all The Apostles were noble sprung of the noble seed though of the Nobles and Great ones of the world they were despised and disdained and reproached because according to the world they were of low degree some of them Fishermen and the like and came to turn the world upside down so they were dispersed persecuted and killed yet they were gentle and bore all But those were all noble sprung of the noble seed and so is all now who are of the same seed and those were all gentle sprung of the gentle seed and those have the nature but not the name and to those belong the true honour not after the Flesh but after the Spirit for they denyed the honour of the world and therefore Christ said I receive not honour from men and said to his Apostles Be ye not called Masters wither call any Master upon earth and though the Princes of this world exercise dominion one over an

A Shield of the Truth OR The Truth of God cleared from SCANDALS AND REPROACHES Cast upon it By scandalous and reproachfull tongues which the Devil in all ages did make use of whereby he blasphemed the truth of God striving to present it odious in the eyes and ears of all people that so he might uphold his own kingdom but the day hath made him manifest the Lord is come is coming to make war with him and bind hm and cast him into the bottomeless pit and all who bears his Image and under his dominion is Written from the Spirit of the Lord by one who suffers amongst the little flock of Christ who go under the name of Quakers so called by the stock of Ishmael who is known to the world by the name of Iames Parnel It is written they shall put you out of the Synagogues yea the time cometh that whosoever killeth you shall think he doth God service And those things will they do because they have not known the Father nor me for if they had known him they would not have crucified the Lord of glory 1 Cor. 2. 8. But fear not little flock for it is your Fathers good pleasure to give you the kingdome and the time cometh that all your enemies shall be your footstoole the promise is to the faithfull obedient whose kingdome is not of this world John 18. 36. London Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at his shop at the black Spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1655. To the READER REader to thee whosoever thou art I shall clear my conscience and to all people to the light of God in all your consciences I speak which is one in all in the behalf of a depised people with men yet not with God who are scattered abroad in severall Countries yet one in the Lord whom the Lord hath chosen out of the generation of the Children of this world out of all sects forms and opinions into the light of life to bear his Image and so to bear his Crosse and because they have not the same Image with the children of this world but are chosen out from amongst them their fellowship their kindred and acquaintance and breeding manners customs fashions words wayes and worship for light can have no fellowship with darknesse and so the Devil who goeth about like a roaring Lion seeking whom he may devour who is the god of the World who ruleth in the children of disobedience hath stirred up all who bear his image who under his dominion is to persecute slander revile and reproach all who bears the Image of God who testifies against him and all who bears his image so as he hath done in all ages from the beginning so it is now that he may uphold his Image and his kingdome so the beast is making warre with the lambe and now is the warre begun but the lambe shall get the victory praises praises to our God for ever and so for the truths sake and the good of all tender consciences I shall clear my conscience in the clearing of the truth from the scandalls false accusations and reports which is cast upon it by the Priest and people who bear the image of the beast least any who are unsettled and ungrounded in the truth should by giving ear to those false reports and scandals and accusations turne from the light and so lose their convincement and get up into hardnesse of heart and lose their part in the promised land for there is a company of Priests in all parts of the Nation where the truth comes who are the Devils greatest agents who are dayly plotting and inventing and seeking every way to blot the Image of God out of the Nation by writings by prinlings by petitioning to Rulers and Magistrates with all the false aspersions and scandals they can get together to present the truth of God odious to all people and likewise in their pulpits do the same as it was in the time of Christ and his Apostles but we have but one Ruler and Governer to petition to and to rely upon from whom we have our Image even God over all who knoweth the hearts of all who is our witness and our justification then who art thou that condemnest or layes any thing to the charge of Gods Elect but he hath promised no weapon formed against him shall prosper for his work he will cary on by his own unlimited power in despite of the beast and his image And so Reader I charge thee and all people in the presence of the Lord before whom thou must come to judgment to take heed of speaking avill of that you know not lest you speak evil of Gods Elect for it is a feareful thing to enter into the hands of the living God for if those be cursed that doth not receive the Messengers of Jesus Christ how much more them that reviles them and persecutes them he that hath an ear to hear let him hear for in as much as thou dost it to one of his thou dost to him J. P. A Shield of Truth OR The Truth of God cleared from Roports and false Accusations c. 1. COncerning the name Quakers by which the world scornfully calls us As for the Quaking and Trembling caused by the unresistable power of the Lord I own which the holy men of God witnessed before us in all ages Isaac the seed of the promise trembled Moses the Servant of God quaked and trembled Jeremias the Prophet of the Lord his bones shooke Habakkuk his belly trembled and lips quivered when Daniel heard the voice he fell down and trembled and David the King were as if his bones were out of joynt and the rest of the holy men of God quaked and trembled and so it was no new thing but that which was from the beginning which all the holy men of God witnessed though new to the World who live in darknesse and for this cause are we scornfully called Quakers but the scorners God will judge and the righteous God will blesse who work out their salvation with fear and trembling 2. We are accused to be the false Prophets and false teachers and deceivers that are foretold of in the Scriptures to come in the last times but saith Jesus Christ you may know them by their fruites and so we desire to be judged according to our fruits Jesus Christ said beware of false prophets that appear to you in sheeps cloathing but inwardly ravening wolves you shall know them by their fruits do men gather grapes of thornes and figges of thistles a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit nor a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit pride is a fruit of the corrupt tree now see wheher we or your teachers be guilty of this who go in double cuffs and boot-hose tops with great store of points ribands which are of no use but for the

ther yet it shall not be so amongst you but be that would be the greatest amongst you let him be your servant and said he How can ye beleeve which receive honour one of another and seek not the honour that cometh from God onely and here the true honour is no more after the Flesh but after the Spirit and here you who are giving and receiving outside earthly honour you are in the unbelief out of the doctrine of Christ cringing and bowing and honouring and exalting the Devil and worshipping the Beast and his Image which all the world wonders after and worships Rev. 13. And as for Manners and Breeding Curtesie and Civility Learn to doe as you would have all to do unto you and speak every one truth to his neighbour And let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth but such as is good for the use of edifying for evil communication corrupts good manners but let your yea be yea and nay be nay for whatsoever is more is evill and breed your children so and here is good Manners and Breeding Curtesie and Civility and who are of the right noble seed hath this Manners this Breeding but the Nobles and Great ones of the earth want this Manners this Breeding and both Priest and People of all sorts according to the world And here is the ground of all true Nobility Gentility Majesty Honour Breeding Manners Curtesie and Civility no more after the Flesh but after the Spirit for the natural man minds natural things and the spiritual man spiritual things but the natural man receives not the things of God and this we own and witness and the time is coming and now is that before this seed every knee shall bow every tongue confess and the Kings and Nobles of the earth shall be bound in Chains and Fetters of Iron and here is also the ground of the Nobility Gentility Superiority Honour Breeding and Manners of the world which is after the Flesh but not after the Spirit sprung from proud Lucifer the Lust that reigns in man are not yea and nay but cals it manners to say nay and take it or doe it and so they have the name but not the nature and so are Bastards and no Sons who are not sprung from the noble gentle seed and to those Honour is not due neither can we bow unto them for if we should we should set the Devil in the room of God and give unto him that which is due to God which when we were blindness through ignorance we did so worship the Beast his Image which all the world worships and wonders after for they that are proud and lofty which is the Image of the Devil for the Devil is the father of Pride and in gay attire those the world worships and wonders after and extols and exalts into high places but since the Lord hath opened our eyes this we cannot doe but testifies against it wheresoever we come both in words and actions and so we are destructive to the worlds Superiority Nobility Gentility Honour Breeding and Manners which is after the Flesh and not after the Spirit therefore the Devil hates us in the Nobles and Great ones of the world but we give unto Cesar the things that are Cesars and unto God that which is Gods but we cannot give unto Cesar that which is Gods but fear to whom fear honour to whom honour is due He that hath an ear to hear let him hear and understand For saith the Lord if I be a Master where is my fear If I be a Father where is my honour Mal. 1. 6. And now somthing concerning the partiality that is among the children of this world in their Breeding and Manners First concerning the word thou or thee which all those which are their Priests and Teachers knows that thou is the proper word to one particular person and is so all along the Scriptures throughout to any one without respect of persons yea to God himself and the word you is the proper word to more than one but not to one and so it is all along the Scriptures throughout As for example at all times when the Apostles spake to Christ they used the word thou or thee unto him and when he spoke to more than one of them he used the word you or ye but if he spoke but to one he used the word thou or thee as in Mat. 16. 14 15 16 17. verses And also Paul thoued King Agrippa and King Agrippa thoued him as in Act. 26. 27 28 verses and so all along the Scripture and so it is plain that now it is an invention of proud Lucifer in man to exalt himself as it will plainly appear for amongst the Great and Rich ones of the earth they will either thou or you one another if they be equal in degree as they call it but if a man of low degree in the earth come to speak to any of them then he must you the Rich man but the Rich man will thou him Nay you shall finde it so betwixt Priest and People If a poor Labouring man come before one that you call a Minister though he be one of his hearers one who helps to maintain him according to his ability yet he must you the Priest and the Priest thou him and here the heathen Lord over one another by their corrupt wills but this is contrary to the Apostles and Ministers of Christ who made themselves servants to all and yet those will call themselves the Ministers of Christ and the word Minister signifies a servant and they are masters and so they have gotten the Name but not the Nature and so are Bastards and no Heires who are not sprung from the gentle seed and yet they are hired as servants of men and yet bears rule by their means as masters over those that maintains them so that he that hath an eye to see let him see the deceits of the professed Ministers of England And now as concerning the putting off of the hat which is another invention of proud Lucifer whereby he is honoured and worshipped and exalted in man but the Scripture doth not speak of any such fashion used in any Age but Man hath found out many inventions since the Scripture was recorded and now it is so that it is a fashion throughout the Land whereby one man is exalted above another for if a poor man come before a rich man it may be the rich man wil move his hat that is called curtesie and humility but the poor man must stand with his hat off before him and that is called honour and manners and due respect unto him but if the rich man doe bid him put it on it is counted a great curtesie and he gets honour to himself there to be counted a courteous man But this difference or respect of persons was never ordained by God but by the

now manifested in the flesh and is appeared in the likeness of sinfull flesh to condemn sin in the flesh which is the Word which became flesh and dwelt amongst the Apostles this Christ we witness no more after the Flesh but after the Spirit and before we knew him after the Spirit we had no profit by him but was in the state of Reprobation and so is all now who profess him in words and know nothing of him but by the Letter without them and such deny Christ come in the flesh who plead for sin who live in sin and doe not witness him come but those who are crucified with him doe live with him and he in them and none are Christians of the flock of Christ but who are baptized into his death by one spirit into one body and he that can witness this is crucified to the world and the world to him but who talks of Christ to be their Saviour and are still alive in the worlds nature must first witness him a condemner for his first appearance is with sword and breakes the peace and makes the war and ends the war and makes the peace and this peace endures for ever and so he is a Condemner before he is a Saviour and he is a peace-breaker before he is a peace-maker but who are at peace in their sin the Serpent is head and the strong man keeps the house and Christ they doe not witness come in the flesh but who endures the war shall enjoy this peace and he that can witness Christ his Saviour can witness this but silence all flesh before the Lord and let him that nameth the name of God depart from iniquity for he that saith he knoweth God and keepeth not his Comandements is a lyar For saith Christ why call ye me Lord and do not things which I say And none can call Jesus Lord but by the Holy Ghost so it is plain you know not God who cannot keep his Commands then how can you believe in him whom you do not know We are accused that we judge people It is written the Saints shall judge the world and for judgement I am come into the world saith Christ that those which see not might see and that they which see might be made blind and where Christ rules in his Saints he judges the world as Paul witnessed It is no more I but Christ in me and he is come to reprove the world of sin of righteousness and of judgement of judgement because the Prince of the air is judged who rules in the children of this world and they cannot bear the righteous judgement of Christ but kicks against it and calls him Devil and so they kick against the prick which will the more torment them and this is the spirit of truth which come into the world which the world cannot receive because he testifies of it that the deeds thereof are evil and this is the condemnation of the world light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than life because their deeds are evil and every one that doth evil hateth the light and will not come into the light lest it should reprove them yet they will say Christ is meek love and lowly It is so but not to ungodlinesse but he is meek to the meek and lowly to the lowly and love to the Seed of God and his Saints are meek and lowly and bears all both scandals reproaches persecutions and imprisonments but to the Seed of the Serpent Christ is judgment and wo and a sword to that which is for the sword and a condemner to the wicked and our God is a consuming fire and terrible to the wicked to consume the proud and haughty in their imaginations and here Christ is a Lyon and he is a Lamb he is a Condemner and he is a Saviour he that can receive him let him the hungry and thirsty he feeds with live food but the fat he feeds with judgement and that which would not bear his judgement must never know his peace but is for judgement and cryes out as the Devil did who said he was come to torment them before the time but the Teachers of the world have deceived the people long crying peace to them because they put into their mouthes and healing them up in their sin with a feigned formed faith which works no reformation so sewing pillows under their armholes and here the Devil hath reigned in peace and now Christ is come with the sword to break his peace with plague and judgement and now he rages and stands up for his life in all both Priest and People and now the Beast makes war with the Lamb but it is hard for him to kick against the prick for he must be bound and cast into the pit and there be tormented quick and the false Prophet and all who bears his Image We are accused to deny the Church I answer the true Church which is in God we own and witness through death but the worlds Church we deny for the true Church is the Body of Christ made of tried stones elect and precious washed and cleansed by his blood and spirit that he might present it a glorious Church not having spot or wrinkle but this is not a house of Lime and dead stones nor the people that meets in it for all manner of unrighteous persons meets there which is the synagogue of Sathan and a Cage of unclean Birds and like people like Priest but who comes to be elected into the Church of Christ which is spiritual denies the worlds Church which is carnal and the worlds Teacher who is carnal selling the carnal for carnal mony and earth for Christ himself is the Teacher of his Church who feeds it with living eternal food freely and it needs no other Teacher and this Church we own and witness but all other Churches we deny for the Church is but one the Temple of God we own which is at new Jerusalem the City of the living God but all other Idol-Temples we deny which is the inyention and imaginations of man though God commanded Solomon to build him a Temple nevertheless God that made the world dwels not in Temples made with hands when Christ the substance came he prophesied against it also Stephen was stoned to death when he prophecied against it this we witnesse whose bodies are the Temples of the Holy Ghost who are now stoned and persecuted by such as know not the living God but worship Idols because we speak against their Idols Temple which God never commanded to be built but was set up by the imagining Idolizing Papists and upheld by the blind Protestant so called and so they cast out the Papists and uphold their Idols and so the inchanters Diviners and Sorcerers of England leads silly people in blindnesse to worship Idols telling them they are the houses and Temples of God

manifest to us is God himself for God is the Fountain of all truth and truth is Religion and Religion is truth and this truth we witness made manifest by God the life of truth and here is the Religion which we witness forth and here is the ground witnessed forth from the ground and this Religion is pure unspotted and springs from the light which is pure wherein there is no deceit neither can be for it discovers all deceit and leads out of it both within and without but deceit discovers not deceit for Satan divided against himself cannot stand but all sects and opinions ariseth out of darkness and the end is confusion and so as darkness is opposite to light and death to life so is all sects and opinions against the true Religion and all will side together against the truth though they be opposite one to another in judgement as Pilate and Herod did against Christ and the Scribes and Pharisees and High Priests and Saduces and the rude multude so it is now both Papist and Protestant as they call them and all other sects and opinions which ariseth out of the fall for though they differ in judgement yet they spring from one root and no difference in life but the light strikes at the root which is darkness and lays open the hidden things done in darkness so darkness cannot endure the light and this is the condemnation of the world who love darkness rather then light because their deeds are evil and this is the cause why our Religion is spoken against more then any profession besides all Drunkards Swearers Lyars Whoremongers Adulterers Thieves Murtherers proud covetous lustful ones and all unrighteous persons will speak against it and call it delusion and heresie and witchery and all manner of evil which the Devil can invent and those stands up for the Priests and persecutes the truth as it was in the time of Christ and his Apostles times and this wil all Pharisees and Professors do as they ever did for they can wink at one another and bear with one another in deceit but truth cannot at all bear with deceit because there is perfect enmity as there was ever in all Ages and it is no new thing and here all your Sects and Opinions is shut out of the light and are in darknesse and so is confusion both Popery and all other but the truth is but one and who dwels in the truth dwels in the light and are the children of the light and there is no confusion but all of one heart and one mind Epistles written in one anothers hearts and there is that in every conscience which shall witnesse it to be the everlasting truth which ever was is and is to be for ever both in them that beleeve and in them that perish though to the condemnation of them that hate it and this I witness by the infallible spirit of the Lord which cannot lye And now I have discharged my conscience before all people in the behalf of the truth of God not that I would have any to speak well of it but from the ground of it for the love and the hatred of the unrighteous is all one to me but for some simple ones sake I have layd open my self and freely discharged my conscience and I doubt not that my labour is in vain but whosoever owns the truth of God must own it through good report and evill report and must be content to lose their good name in the World as both Christ and his Servants did and the Servant must not be greater than his Lord And now a few words to all you Heads and Rulers and Magistrates in what degree soever who have the Power in your own hands who by your power persecutes and imprisons the Servants and Messengers of Jesus Christ as deluders and deceivers witches and vagabonds and have no ground for it but onely by heresay and the evil thoughts and immaginations of your own hearts and because they cannot please nor satisfie your corrupt proud wils which is your Law by which you prosecute them not weighing nor searching the ground of things You are they in whom the Beast reignes and his Image you bear which upholds the false Prophet and tyranizes over the Nations by his corrupt will and causeth them to bow to and worship his Image and you oppress and persecute those who cannot You must drink of the wine of the wrath of the Almighty powred out without mixture for in the bloudy generation you are found filling up your measure of your Fathers wrath upon whom must come all the Righteous blood shed from Righteous Abel until now and this I say in the presence of the living God by the Spirit of the living God that all you who have had a hand in persecuting of them guilt shall follow you in the conscience until you come to judgement and therefore I charge you all by the Lord to take heed of medling about Religion or to lay your Law upon any tender conscience but see that your Law be according to that in the conscience which is pure and perfect and meddle with such affaires as you are set about and rather give Liberty to Religion than take it away as you own the grace of God you will and see that you discharge your consciences there lest that while you are persecuting the truth you neglect that which you are set about for you will both persecute them your selves and suffer the bruits to stone them and strike and buffet them which is all contrary to your own Law neither when they are brought before you can they have the liberty of the Law to clear such accusations as is laid against them but you will hear the Accusers and not the Accused and this is contrary to the Heathenish Law and you are more unjust than the very Heathen who said doth our Law judge any one before it hear him and so for shame profess no more love to Christ in his nature who executes your Law upon his servants upon such a fallible ground which no Judge ought to doe by the Law of God especially about Religion but to search out the ground of the matter on both sides before he judge but this he cannot doe about Religion except he have the Spirit of the Lord therefore take heed of meddling about spiritual matters lest through ignorance you call Christ Belzebub and persecute him as a Blasphemer and Deceiver as many of you have done which is written in the book of conscience and there you shal read it to your sorrow And all you blind people who persecute rail and revile and reproach the truth of God and have no ground for it but by here-say and the evill thoughts and imaginations of your own hearts one imagining one thing and another thing as the tumult which gathered together against Paul one crying one thing and another another thing and the most