moral Law onely are the Letter which God did write with his own finger in stone on Mount Sinai Thus strongly your confounding of â—e whole Letter of the New Testament or Gospel of which the Apostles were made able Ministers with the Letter of the Law written and engraven in stone which is called the ministration of death and the ministration of condemnation verse 9. of which killing condemning Letter the Apostles were not not made Ministers promiscuously and confusedly as if the Letter of them both are the Letter that is carnal death and killeth is by the force of your own Scripture-words by you used and abused totally confounded for ever and thereby sent back to the infernal den in which it was hatched for the New Testament is there said to be the ministration of the Spirit vers 8. and the holding forth the word of life Phil. 2.16 because the very Letter of the New Testament or Gospel containeth in it the mediate inspired teaching written Word of Christ the Word that was and is God and the Letter of the Law is in comparison to the Letter of the New Testament or Gospel affirmed to be the oldness of the letter Rom. 7.6 Do you quakers ransack thorow the whole Scripture see if you can find any Scripture that is called the letter that is carnal death killeth and it is not declared therewith That it is the letter of the Law onely And how having shewed how powerfully my Lord Jesus hath torn down this your refuge and with his written Word and Sword of his Spirit hath hewed in pieces your murthering Agag that would have murthered the holy mediate teaching use of the whole Scripture-letter I shall proceed FIFTHLY I do direct my pen to discourse with Thomas Biddal quaker who also with the four former audacious quakers doth deny the Scriptures to be the Word of God for he being with me I cited to him this place And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God Ephes 6.17 I then telling him That the written word of God is the sword of the Spirit but is not the Spirit it self and that the Scriptures are the Spirits word and spiritual sword also But he answered me saying That the Spirit and the sword of the Spirit are both one and the self-same thing As if he should have said A man is his sword and his sword is the man And these ridiculous shifts they are inforced to make for fear the holy Scriptures should be proved to be the Word of God but to their perpetual shame our Saviour Christ though he was furnished in himself with superabundant ability to have confuted and confounded the devil If he had but said I Jesus say unto thee Satan yet for our examples he would not conflict against the devil with his own all-sufficient spiritual power onely without his Scripture-sword but to confound the devil withal he takes up his Spirits never-failing sword his written Scriptures and therewith he enters the lists against his powerful spiritual inverate enemy the devil and overthrows him with that his Word and written sword by his saying to the devil in his perverting of Scriptuers against him Thus it is written Thus it is written Thus it is written Satan and by his confounding the devil therewith he gratiously teacheth us even by his own example by the spirit of Faith to take up his Spirits never-failing word and sword the holy Scriptures and to fight valiantly and undantedly therewith against the devil himself in his temptations and also against the deluding assaults of Thomas Biddal and all other brain-sick quakers Satans officious servants And accordingly the Apostles did lay aside all their glorious heavenly raptures and visions in case of teaching men and confirmed their sayings with our Saviours infallible word and sword the Scriptures frequently saying Thus saith the Scriptures But what saith the Scriptures It is written and such-like expressions And it is well known That the Apostles were better taught then any quaker whatsoever Again Thomas Biddal what infernal spirit taught thee to boast That thy large railing seducing letters directed to me and others were written from thee to us from the Spirit of the Lord as if thou hadst been a Messenger sent to us immediately from the Lord whereas to thy shame the same queries that thou therein makest appear in the same words and form in a printed book written by another man to thy hand before thou wrotest thy lying letters to us Thus thy Luciferian aspiring pride appeareth further even to publick view Again Thomas Biddal whither were thy giddy brains ranged when thou saidst in my hearing That Faith and Christ are one and the same thing as thou didst say That the Spirit and the sword of the Spirit are one and the same thing What now Thomas canst thou not creep out of the road-way to hell wouldst thou make people believe thy false spirit that when St. Paul said We preach Christ crucified 1 Cor. 1.23 that Paul and other Saints meant to have said if they had not forgot it We preach Faith and it crucified What Thomas was Faith crucified for thee If thou saist That Faith is crucified to death in thee I shall readily believe thee Thomas though those thy sayings are to be abhorred And now to sum up together thine own begotten titles without addition to them thou hast proved thy self to be a very ignorant person a notorious lyer a proud luciferian and an audacious perverter of holy Scriptures and thereby art an enemy to God and his Truths and thereby also art a Traytor to mens souls And because you quakers do refuse the Gospel-imputation thou art not onely fallen under the eternal condemnation of God's Law but also thy brother quaker James Nayler's condemning sentence aforesaid fastens upon thee Thomas proving thou art a lyer and abides not in the truth but art of the devil and not of Christ Doubtless Thomas God had formerly given thee and others by thee a fair forewarning to avoid these delusions of the devil for thou Thomas Biddal some yeers now past was as appears inforced by the devil openly to declare That thou wert one of the two witnesses of God mentioned in the Revelations and thou didst thereupon make use of another man's new sackin-cloth which lay by him so far as to carry it to a Taylor a neighbour of thine thou knowest to whom and thou Tho. Biddal didst then lay a heavy severe charge upon that Taylor to make thee a suit of aparrel of that sack-cloth by such a day being within a little while after that it might be ready at that day for thee to put on and to prophesie in as being one of the two witnesses aforesaid then sent from God But that neighbour of thine the Taylor prudently discerning that thou wert deluded though he took the sack-cloth of thee to satisfie thy present resolute humour yet he totally neglected to make thy sackcloth-suit and
then the height of that luciferian pride fell and thy hot prophecying zeal as being one of those two witnesses sent from God was squashed and thy heavy charges laid upon thy neighbour the Taylor vanished away as if thy suit of sackcloth not being made did as Samsons hair being cut cut off the strength of thy prophetical witness-bearing for God from whom thou saidst thou wert then sent But yet the fickle unsettleness of thy brain for ought I do discern doth still remain with thee unto this day and this should be also a forewarning to the two lofty and false pretended witnesses of God now marching abroad in print named in the latter end of this Treatise And Thomas thou being drowned in such a fantastical fancy hast acrording to James Nayler's quakish humour belyed and slandered Thomas Moor that he would preach Christ out of his Saints whereas in that very page out of which thou chargest him pag. 32. Thomas Moor there speaking of Christ saith That person that is personally absent from the believer is dwelling note that in the believers heart by faith of and in him And thus thy lyes swarm about visibly and James Nayler's sentence of condemnation pronounced by him a-against such lying slanderers layeth also fast hold on thee Thomas for things also that thou art of the devil and not of Christ SIXTHLY John Barber quaker being as ignorant as the most foolish of them but as brisk as the most perkest of them his faith hanging on his neighbour Thomas Biddal's lips But John why dost thou run after to disperce quakish lyes for thou having gotten some of James Nayler's lying Libels by him framed against Thomas Moor his Opposer thou didst say unto one man unto whom thou didst deliver one of those lying books There thou maist read saidst thou that Thomas Moor hath told forty eight lyes but now James Nayler being firmly proved to be the lyer aad a foul-mouthed slanderer and a deluding person by and in Thomas Moor his Reply to James his lying Libels thou John Barber hast made thy giddy-headed rashness appear by casting in thy testimony maliciously to countenance lyes to deface the truth and thereby hast proved thy self to be an ignorant rash person and a close enemy to truth thou having said also to some of thy Opposers disdainfully Ho you look for Heaven out of the chimney-top as if there were no other Heaven but such as is in your quakers self-proved wicked bodies But behold how James Nayler's condemning Law doth lash thee also SEVENTHLY John Sparrow quaker how durst thou venture to say That Thomas Moor had told forty eight lyes whenas thou being then by one that heard thee say so required to prove but one lye of the forty eight thou durst not attempt to do that and then the same man requiring thee but to name one lye of the forty eight which thou said T. M. had told but thou couldst not do that neither what evil doomse-spirit in thee was that that did render thee up to an envious backbiter And John why didst thou with a lofty voice vapour and say You high-flown professors the time is coming and now is that you will wish that there never had been any Scriptures written or to that effect in full VVhat now John wouldst thou perswade people that God hath secretly hidden deadly spiritual poyson under his gracious Gospel published in writing Or wouldest thou declare by that thy speech That God hath mentally made a secret-snaring trap of his Scriptures to destroy mens souls and bodies for ever as men do set traps in secret places to destroy noysome vermine what desperate blasphemous poyson is wrapped up in that thy lofty speech but it appears that you maunder thus because the Scriptures will not own that mis-begotten brat of yours a third Covenant for the Scriptures will own but two Covenants one of VVorks and another of Free-grace but you quakers have carried God's first Covenant of VVorks given to Adam into the dark behinde the cloth and have there trickt and deckt it up with the titles of Christ and then you bring out that your disguised puppet a third Covenant and would have the Scriptures father it but because the Scriptures do gravely and sharply disclaim that your mis-begotten brat then as appears by your teneats and words aforesaid you would if you could murder the Scriptures and bury them in perpetual oblivion And thus John Sparrow being an envious backbiter and thereby a foul-mouthed slanderer and thereby a notorious lyer and thereby an enemy to God's Scripture-truths and thereby a traytor to mens souls and refusing the Gospel-imputation thou hast desperately thrown thy self down under not onely God's eternal condemning Law but also thy brother quaker James Nayler's condemning sentence aforesaid doth lay fast hold on thee John testifying that thou also art a lyer and so art of the devil and not of Christ EIGHTHLY Anne Blaake a principal aspiring quaker wherefore didst thou when thou wert with me and others of my Christian Frieds propound nothing nor answer nothing by Scriptures but onely with railing and hellish condemning censures why didst thou although thou saidst that the Scriptures are true yet affirm withal that the Scriptures are not thy Rule what didst thou thereby affirm less then this that thy Rule is a false Rule And when I cited this place of Scripture to thee He that believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness what evil spirit provoked thee to answer wrathfully that that is a rotten foundation But Anne though that be not Christ the bottom foundation yet it is a strong doctrinal foundation that leads to build by faith on Christ's free-Grace But are the Scriptures true sayest thou and yet are some of them false or rotten in thy judgement True it is That thou hadst acknowledged that place of holy Scripture to be true and sound Doctrine then thou hadst thereby granted that you quakers must acknowledge that you have ungodliness in you or else your faith cannot be counted for righteousness but the devil taught thee to evade that to preserve your falsly supposed inherent perfection which by that Scripture is a delusion And Anne thou didst then and there say That thou art the Judge of the world not a judge or one judge of the world amongst other judges but thy luciferian spirit elevates thee to affirm That thou art the judge of the world so thou excluding not onely all other Saints but also Christ himself out of that thy Throne of judgement And George Fox doth also say That he is the judge of the world so if you were not both lyers yet one of you must needs be a great lyer and thy raging boasting behaviour was such amongst us that some did affirm That if ever they did see the devil acting in any person that he was acting in thee Anne And that thy saying not that thou shalt be but that thou art the judge of the world is
will tell thee That by thy taking out and adding to the words of that bock thou hast desperately involved thy self not onely to have thy part taken out of the book of Life but also to have all the plagues fall upon thee Leonard that are written in that book as is in full effect affirmed in Rev. 2.18 19. and not onely God's Law thus fiercely condemns thee and all such false quakers as thou hast proved thy self to be but also thy brother quaker James Naylers condemning Law aforesaid doth adjudge thee Leonard Fell by thy self manifested evil behaviour to be a lyer and so no abider in the truth but art of the Devil and not of Christ and because you quakers do refuse the gracious benefit of the Gospel-imputation that James Naylers censure of thee Leonard is true and just TWELFTHLY My twelfth Discourse is with thee Martha Simmonds and truely Martha thy folly is so apparent that I could almost have seemed to have thrown by my pen and have left thee to have been censured by thine own gross ignorance by thee published in print but yet I shall do thee this favour Martha to help thee to see how the Devil deludes thee if it may be Martha I finde in thy bock which thou callest A Lamentation for the lost Sheep amongst divers quakish errors by thee therein manifested as birds of a feather will flock together that even so thou Martha also hast perverted and wickedly falsified the cleer and plain sense of holy Scripture to serve thy master Satan where thou sayest Now Jesus Christ the second Adam who is God manifested in the flesh condemning sin in the flesh if thou live in him in thee and believe in him in thee thou shalt witness his power to the cutting down of thy will for thy will must come to death that the will of God may be done and so that Scripture comes to be fulfilled in thee which are the words of Christ Lo I come in the volume of thy book it is written of me to do thy will O God which is the book of conscience in thee there the will of God is to be done These be thy words Martha And now know thou and all quakers That Jesus Christ is before now come in his own distinct person of flesh without men but not come personally in yours nor any other mans body of flesh which is largely and firmly proved in my two last Discourses so that a man is not so to live in him in him nor so to believe in him in him as thou falsly saiest for you quakers Christ dwells in no man any other wayes but by Faith which is in plain and full effect proved in Ephes 3.17 neither is Christ abidingly in any man no not in God's sons but by his Spirit which is also proved in Gal. 4.6 and from this ground Christ's Spirit is called the Spirit of Faith 2 Cor. 4 4. and from thence the Saints are said to be the habition of God through to Spirit Eph. 2.22 but not whole Christ God and Man in men but by faith and his Spirit and therefore these Scriptures do confound that thy saying Martha And whereas thou saiest That that Scripture Lo I come in the volume of thy book it is written of me to do thy will O God Heb. 10.7 is to be fulfilled in men It is so evident That that will of God in that same Scripture mentioned is already fulfilled in Christs person onely and never was fulfilled in any other person nor never can be wrought over again in Christs person neither for that will of God was fulfilled by Christs death in his being sacrificed but Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more death hath no more dominion over him Rom. 6.9 This again proves cleerly That you quakers are not Christ as you brag you are for Christ now cannot die but it is apparent that you quakers do die as other men do therefore you quakers are not Christ and yet you are so impudent that you dare to say That as Christ is so are you in this world but shame attends upon you But to proceed it is evident That that will of God in that thy cited place mentioned Heb. 10.7 is not to be fulfilled in any mans person whatsoever but as that will of God hath been already perfectly fulfilled in Christ's person by his being personally sacrificed without men whereby he did put a total end to the vertues of all or any typical sacrifices And this is so evident a truth flying even in the very face of that thy false and lying saying Martha that it would be altogether superfluous any further to prove it then to intreat my Reader to peruse Heb. 10. from the 1 vers to the 12. In which space Martha's wickedly abused vers 7. is included And again Nartha whereas thou saiest That by the volume of the book in that place mentioned is meant of the volume of the book of mens consciences it is evident against the Devil speaking in thee Martha that by the volume of the book in that place mentioned is plainly meant to be the volume of the books of the Prophets for the same words written in thy cited vers Heb. 10.7 Lo I come in the volume of thy book it is written of me do appear plainly in the Prophet David's book in his Psalm 40.6 7 8. and in the volume of the Prophet Moses book and Esay 53. and divers other Prophets do in the volume of their books speak so clearly of Christ's death and being to be sacrificed that it would utterly be time lost any further to prove against thy quakish notorious lyes which thou hast learned by-heart by thy accustomed dancing after the Devil's pipe And hereby appears That by your quakers luciferian-like bragging as if you onely were in the light and yet by your falling down so extremely short in the understandings of such cleer and plain places of Scripture and by your delivering such eternally destructive Doctrine from them you deliver up your selves to be one of the most deluded and deluding miracles and monsters of the whole world THIRTEENTHLY My thirteenth Discourse is directed to the four and twentieth quaker the mighty writing quaker James Parnel And now comes his fearful blasphemies tumbling out of his Thraso-like boasting lying book which he calls A Shield of the Truth for observe my Reader and though it be one or more of the self-Christed quakers I care not for as it were passing by James Parnels murthering of himself in Colchester-Goal by his inordinate and by Scripture-condemned fasting as he said luciferian-like to shew himself to be a Prophet of the Lord for people to believe in him which was not to believe his words but to believe in him to whom he promised the eternal joyes of heaven as I finde recorded and said to be licensed according to order And passing by the numerous bulk of his great quakish errors his whole book being nothing else but lyes in
would with the Dâ—vâ—◠〈…〉 God and Christ the Spirit and Light ouâ— of the World and that he should no more dwell in his people till dooms-day but it is plain to the flat contrary That T. M. in that his book out of which he is charged saith in page 39. That the Majesty of God whose Throne is in Heaven is in his Inspections Influences and Operations everywhere and in his gracious and spiritual Presence and manifested nighness in and through his Son dwelling in Sion even in the hearts and societies of his people Now note doth Tho. Moor exclude God and Christ Spirit and Light out of the World and out of his people while dooms-day Dâ—â—h not T. M. affirm directly That God in his spiritual Influences is everywhere in the World and by his Spirit dwelling even in the hearts and societies of his people what can we think of these desperate attempts of J.N. against the truth But he must needs go whom the Devil for just causes is appointed to drive and these are but a little sample taken out of his manifold detestable lyes and slanders And again to shew how expresly James Nayler doth prove himself to be a falsifier of Scripture to give but a little Sample of his ample falseness Note That James Nayler in his Satan's Design in pages 20 21. he there speaking of our Saviour's words which he spake to his Disciples James thereto saith He told them also That they should mourn in the time of his absence but he would come again and their mourning should be turned into joy when the man-childe should be born into the world and he citeth to prove these his words Act. 14.8 Joh. 16.19 20 21 22. Joh. 16.16 But there is not in any of them places these his forged words That their mourning should be turned into joy when the man-child should be born into the world though our Saviour shewed them an inferiour simile of that their joy at his appearing again unto them by telling them of a womans joy when she is delivered of a man-child which word man-child as it appears fumeth up into the Quakers distempered brains and causes them to conceit That Christ a Man-child is appeared in them for they do affirm That Christ God and Man Flesh and Spirit is in them I could relate divers of these whimsical forgeries which James hath recorded in his Satan's Design discovered but these are sufficient to give a true rellish of his wickedness for besides his equivocating hypocrisie here are his own three witnesses produced to his face one proving that he is a notorious lyer the second shewing that he is a foul-mouthed envious slanderer and another proving that he is a forger of new and false Scripture all which are his presumptuous sins of his personal fact though his false Doctrine be not at all medled with for a threefold cord is not easily broken And now behold the condemning sentence that James Nayler himself hath passed upon such sinners as he hath proved himself to be which is thus where James Nayler is speaking of Christ Jesus in his book he calls Love to the Lost he saith But who says they know Christ and are redeemed and commits sin not keeping his commands is a lyer and so abides not in the Truth and anoynting and so is of the Devil and not of Christ for he that abides in Christ sins not These be thy words James Nayler but now James take notice how the Devil hath over-ruled thee to publish thine own shame and condemnation in print whereby thou hast rendered up the Quakers and also Quakery it self odious to present and future posterity and first for thy self Iames thou dost pretend in thy tenents That thou dost know Christ and art redeemed and yet thou hast made it appear even against all contradiction whatsoever that thou dost commit notorious sins and so thou dost not keep his commands nor dost abide in Christ for thou sayest that he that abides in Christ sins not but thou James hast made thy sins of thy personal act and fact manifest therefore by thy own mouth thou dost stand condemned to be a lyer and so art of the Devil and not of Christ and considering that you Quakers do refuse the imputation of Christ's righteousness wrought without you to be applied to you as being sinners for your justification Thy judgement is true James that thou art of the Devil and not of Christ and this thy self-condemning law being by thee recorded in print it must stand firm as the Law of the Medes and Persians to remain as an established monument to posterity testifying against wicked James Nayler himself and also against all such Quakers which are found to be sinners And now under my Lord Christ his protection I will try how many such wicked Quakers I can finde out by name not exceeding an ordinary volume for it appears that not onely James Nayler's Law will condemn them all to be of the Devil and not of Christ but also God's Law Exod. 20.16 doth condemn not onely James Nayler but also all such lying slandering Quakers as he hath made himself appear to be for God's Law saith Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour but James Nayler doth even upon his own record bear false witness not onely against man but also against God by his forging new and false Scripture Thus James Nayler hath set himself by a condemned man both by God's and his own Law And now beloved we are to take special notice hereto that James Nayler hath established the grounded Principles of Quakery largely in twenty four several Distinctions in the very self-same book which he calls Love to the Lost in which self-same book he hath firmly proved himself the Teacher of Quakery to be a lyer and of the Devil and not of Christ even at that time when he declared in print the Grounds and Principles of Quakery And this being well considered of what hope or expectation can there be in the least measure that any Doctrine can proceed from him that hath so firmly proved himself to be a lyer and of the Devil and not of Christ even at the same time and in the very same book wherein he teacheth the grounded Principles of Quakery but devilish Doctrine I say again what Doctrine can any manner of ways be expected to proceed from such a self-proved devilishfied man then devilish Doctrine And note also herewith That the same Principles of Quakery which James Nayler taught even when he proved himself to be a lyer and no abider in the truth and so is of the devil and not of Christ are received and taught by all right Quakers as if they were divine Oracles of God All which also proveth clearly against all contradiction That if the Quakers possibly could and would forsake their Practice in personal sins yet if they do not also therewith totally forsake their Doctrine of Quakery which is before proved to flow forth of a devilish
his inspiring his holy Servants his Apostles to write his minde to men during which time also even unto the worlds end those his holy Servants his Apostles declaring in writings what Christ spake immediately to them concerning men is the mediate Word of Christ the Son of God and God and so in truth are the Words or Word of God And fourthly God's book of his glorious creatures continuing even from the creation of the World to the end thereof being subservient unto all those three dispensations of God's minde to the sons of men to make up a sweet harmony in visibly declaring of God's incomprehensible Glory Majesty Power Providence Mercy and Goodness even throughout the whole World yet notwithstanding all this though the Spirit saith in Scripture Let the word of Christ dwell in you and do not say Let Christ the Word dwell in you personally and though the Psalms or Scriptures are set forth to be the Word of Christ and though it be not said as you quakers dream That Christ the Son in his established ordinary way doth now teach men by his immediate words without the Scriptures and though it be said God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the Fathers by the Prophets hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son note it is not said God doth speak to us by his Son as your tenents falsly say he doth now speak to men immediately but it is said God hath spoken to us by his Son Heb. 1.1 2. intimating plainly thereby That the Sons immediate speaking his minde to men in his established ordinary way of teaching them is gone and past and though it be said therewith to confirm that truth That the great Salvation at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by them that heard him which can be no otherwise since the Apostles deaths but by their Scripture-writings and though our Saviour did not say Father I pray not for these alone but also for all them that shall believe on me through mine own immediate words spoken by me to them as your quakers fantastick brains imagine but not so though that false sense is the quakers killing livelihood but according to Heb. 1.1 2 3. so also Christ the Son saith in his prayer Neither pray I for these alone but for them also which shall believe on me through their words John 17.20 so not through the Sons immediate words but through theirs his Apostles or Disciples words who at first heard the Son speak immediately to them who are to confirm those the Son's words to us which did not hear the Son speak immediately to them And fifthly though it be so that if the Apostles confirming of the Son 's immediate words to us be not taken to be by their Scripture-writings left to us that then the whole world of men that have lived ever since the Apostles died are totally deprived of the Apostles confirmation of the Son's words to us who heard not the Son speak immediately to them and so those vast multitudes of people have not had nor have not any means to know the great Salvation which the Son at first began to speak or teach to them his Apostles immediately for them to confirm to us mediately by writings which considered sheweth the vanity of the quakers deluded fancies And sixthly though St. Paul who affirmeth That he did not receive his Doctrine from man but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ Gal. 1.12 and so being an Apostle that heard the Son speak immediately at first to him also and so was one of them that did confirm those the Son's words to us in writing I say Though even he that great Apostle saith to the Thessalonians For this cause thank we God without ceasing because when ye received the word of God ye heard of us then not immediately of the Son not so but the word of God ye heard of us to wit of those that heard the Son speak to them immediately ye received it not as the word of man or our words but as it is in truth the word of God 1 Thes 2.13 And seventhly though Moses that admired pen-man of God's Works for us and minde to us hath discovered in his Scripture-writings the particulars of God's wonderful Works which he wrought in his first five days-works of Creation which were all past before any man had any being or before man was and therefore could not possibly be taught to Moses by any man but onely by God's teaching of him and though all this of God's immediate teaching Moses appeareth in his recorded written Scriptures yet even yet I say notwithstanding all these and many more such-like infallible inspired Scripture-Testimonies of God which do firmly prove That the holy Scriptures are in truth the mediate Word of God to us yet say by experiences which God hath formerly for my humiliation and instruction permitted Satan to act in my body for a time even the same strong delusions in kinde which Satan acts in your quakers bodies though my heavenly Father in great mercy hath delivered me from them yet I know that your quakers diabolical spirit in you will not permit you to acknowledge that truth though he doth give you leave frequently to affirm That the Scriptures are true as the Devil of old spake some truths to usher in his manifold deceits even so he over-powers you quakers though you say the Scriptures are true yet to deny the Scriptures to be any help in saving teachings and are led to deny in that respect the second dispensation of God's minde to men declared in the writings of his holy Prophets and also God's third dispensation of his minde to men by his inspired writings manifested by his holy Apostles And as he thereby limits the supreme holy One so he over-rules you to acknowledge but one dispensation of God's minde unto the sons of men And that by this his first dispensation of his minde to men by his immediate words that so the devil the father of lyes by his servants quakers may make elbow-room for his enthusiasms to teach men crafty devices closely contrived both to deceive themselves and others also and that his freedom in this destructive way may not be disturbed by the contradiction or controle of holy Scriptures he hath taught you the â—eâ—diest way to please him and you as cheerfully imploy your selves in his business And thus you four principal quakers have made your spiritual pestilential infectious black spots appear upon you to publick view and your brother quaker James Nayler's condemning Law aforesaid looks very fiercely upon you I 'll warrant you to justifie that you all are of the devil and not of Christ And herewith know you quakers That we your Opposers do not trust to nor expect to be taught by the Letter of the Scriptures written with ink on paper as you shrawme out against your Opposites but by the Spirit of Christ
therewith and thereon attending even on his Scriptures to convey his minde therein recorded into the hearts of all tender-hearted contrite humble persons that do abidingly wait upon his teachings for Christ said to his Disciples Go ye and teach all nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost though you quakers account this Doctrine to be like conjuration by the devil but Christ did then promise them saying And lo I am with you alway even to the end of the world And it is well known That Christ was with them personally but a small time and their action of verbal ministration died with their bodies therefore Christ's promise is by his Spirit to be with their Scripture-written-Ministration always even to the end of the world which teaching of Christ's Spirit in and with those sacred Scriptures is our rejoycings though you quakers to advance your enthusiasms do turn that kinde of teaching into your own everlasting destruction And now considering it is your strongest refuge to lurk in to defend your satanical immediate enthusiasms without the Scripture frequently to cry down the teaching-use of the Letter of the Scriptures to which frantick end you in the 7 pag. of Saul's Errand do affirm That the Letter of the Scripture is carnal and the Letter is death and killeth and in this your saying you make no distinction in the Scripture-Letter but that all of it is carnal and death and killeth and yet you affirm constantly that the Scriptures are true and so hereby you do affirm That the truth is carnal and is death and killeth And now what other non-sence will you spatter out next in the tail of this And in the 21 p. of your Satan's Design you to defend your lye do say the truth That the Apostles was not Ministers of the Letter but of the Spirit But why so you brain-sick quakers but onely because you are falsly given to understand out of the Air by your high immediate enthusiasms that all your affirmed true Scripture-Letter is all of it carnal-letter and is death and killeth But now with amazement do all you quakers behold even to your everlasting shame and perdition That God's own inspired Word his holy Scriptures do as it were fiercely flie at your impudent faces rebuking you and telling you plainly That there is no Scripture-Letter that is called the Letter that is carnal and death and killeth but onely and alone the letter of the moral Law which was written and engraven in stone and that Law-letter onely and none other Scripture-Letter whatsoever is called the Letter that is carnal and death and killeth See this firmly proved against you quakers even by your own chosen place of Scripture which you have cited you endeavouring thereby to prove your great hellish lye aforesaid to be true and this your pick'd place is Heb. 7.16 and is written of Christ saying in the 15 vers That after the similitude of Melchisede◠there ariseth another priest and then in v. 16. which is the verse by them cited it is said Who is made not after the law of a carnal commandment And it is further written thus For the law made nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better hope did by the which we draw nigh unto God vers 19. So herein we have set forth plainly to our view that the Law onely is there called the Commandment that is carnal and that other Scriptures is in plain and full effect said to be the bringing in of a better hope testified in the Scripture by and in the Letter of the New Testament or Gospel of which the Apostles were made able Ministers as is shewed in full effect in the 2 Cor. 3.6 and not of the Letter of the Law or carnal Commandment aforesaid For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof Heb. 7.18 which is the very next verse but one to the quakers cited verse So that hereby the devil your Tutor as it appeareth after he hath hoodwink'd you then according to his own habitual deceitful tricks he hath led you as it were by the nose to spie out that place Heb. 7.16 and to make use of it to shew against your selves to your perpetual shame that the Letter of the Law onely includes the Commandment which is in Scripture called carnal Thus far concerning your affirming That the Letter of the Scripture without distinction is a carnal Letter which by your own proof is proved to be a hellish lye And now again you quakers concerning your other false words affirming That the Scripture-Letter is death and killeth and to prove these to be as false also I shall further note what is written where it 's said Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament not of the letter of the law of a carnal commandment as before but of the spirit for the letter the law of the carnal commandment killeth but the Spirit giveth life 2 Cor. 3.6 And now here again that saying of yours you quakers is brought upon the tenter-hooks where though you say That the Apostles were not Ministers of the Letter but of the Spirit and that 's true But here 's your torment augmented by your tormenting the truth of that verse by your thereby signifying That the Apostles were Ministers to teach men onely to look for the immediate speakings of the Spirit to and in them and so you would repeat over again your old satanical superstitious Beads to destroy the third dispensation of God's minde by his inspired Scriptures written for mens mediate teachings by his Apostles which their writings do contain in them literally the Letter and Letters of the New Testament or Gospel of which the Apostles were able Ministers and upon which the Apostles written Testimonies Christ by his Spirit by his own promise is alwayes with them even to the end of the World to convey the benefit of that written New Testament unto all humble waiters upon him therein which is before lately proved and your old hellish long now repeated against God's third written dispensation is also in this my fourth Discourse by Scripture-truths totally confounded And now to prove even against all denial That the Devil your Tutor befools your understandings to make use of that saying Not of the letter for the letter killeth as if thereby were declared That the whole Letter of the Scriptures is carnal and death and killeth but to confound that also it is proved plainly and firmly that next after it is said God hath made us able ministers of the New Testament not of the letter for the letter killeth then to shew even to publick view distinctly and apparently what that letter is that is death it is written immediately thereto in the very next verse thus But if the ministration of death written and engraven in stone was gloriou◠〈◊〉 And it is well known you silly quakers That the Letter of the