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A62209	The sauciness of a seducer rebuked, or, The pride and folly of an ignorant scribbler made manifest in some remarks upon a scurrilous libel written by Joseph Nott ... against a book of the Reverend Mr. George Tross in vindication of the Lord's Day : together with a confutation of some errors of the Quakers, in a book call'd ... Gospel-truths scripturally asserted, written by John Gannacliff and Joseph Nott.	Trosse, George, 1631-1713.	1693 (1693)	Wing S729; ESTC R7884	41,236	31

an Embassdor of Christ as a Babel-Builder No wonder that the Devil will rather play at small Game than fit out and when he can't have Men of Learning imploys Blacksmiths Shoemakers and Weavers to broach Errors and sow Seditions J. N. I desire the 1 Reader to consider what thou reads 2 And if any one publish any Doctrine contrary to the Holy Scriptures believe them 3 not More Non-sense 1 The for Thee 2. Reads for Readest 3. Them for Him To School Truant learn thy Primmer and Con the Eight Parts of Speech before thou write any more Replies Thy want of Learning makes thee bold there is no danger that too much of it should make thee mad J. N. For Christ bids us beware of false Prophets which come in Sheeps Cloathing who saith Ye shall know them by their Fruits Mat. 7.15 16. And the Apostle Paul adviseth us to turn away from such as have a f●rm of Godliness but denies a. the Power 2 Tim. 3.5 For indeed another Foundation can no man lay than that which is laid which is Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 3.11 Rare sense again a denies for deny Scarce a Period without false Concord But that is a small Matter compar'd with the Gall and Venom in these words Joseph Nott and his Friends are utter Enemies to Carnal Weapons as Swords and Guns and other Dead-doing Tools But no Animals have sharper Tusks or longer Claws and none more ready to fasten their Rabid Teeth in their Neighbour's good Name Backbiting doth not hinder 'em from attaining perfection but with their She-friend Prov. 30.20 they wipe their mouth and say I have done no wickedness Just now this bold Calumniator rank'd Mr. Tross among Babel's-builders Now to let us see how he improves his Talent of Railing he basely perverts Scripture to insinuate that he is a false Prophet and a Hypocrite Yet this he who pretends to be guided by the Spirit of God But Reader What Spirit is it thinkest thou that moves this foul Mouth'd Fellow thus to reproach and bespatter such a Minister of the Gospel as Mr. Tross A man whose exemplary Piety Humility and Self-denial diffusive Charity and Moderation and unwearied diligence in his Master's Work by Studying Preaching and Visiting have procur'd him a good Report of all sober and serious Christians of all Perswasions in the City where he lives Had not Joseph Nott been Master of a bold Face and a hard Forehead and had not his Conversation with Boat-Men and Oyster-Women Coblers and Tinke●s improv'd his natural Confidence to a great stock of Impudence he would never have attempted to fix the odious Brands of false Prophet and Hypocrite upon so good a Man so faithful a Minister who lays out his Time his Strength his Estate his All for the Glory of God and good of Souls I am persuaded few Persons in Exon even of the Quakers themselves are so far forsaken of their Understandings as to believe this Charge upon a Brain-sick Enthusiast's say-so If any should we may well conclude that they are given up to strong Delusions to believe Lies as a Judgment for rejecting sound Doctrine and giving heed to old Wives Fables (a) 1 Tim. 4.7 or prophane and vain Babling (b) 2 Tim. 2.16 J. N. And therefore I desire the 1 Reader to keep thy Mind near to the Light of Jesus Christ in thy own Heart and Conscience that so thou mayest understand what thou readest After a small Blunder the 1 for thee out comes the rare Catholicon with which these Quacks do greater wonders than ever did Puntaeus with his Balsam or Ointment and that is the Light within Reader if thou canst but get Joseph Nott to spare thee a few Ounces of this choice Medicine call'd Light within prize it above Aurum potabile or the Philosopher's Stone But if he will not part with any of it follow my Directions and thou mayest obtain it thy self Strip thy self of Lace Ribbons and all other Babylonish Garments bid adieu to good Manners Thee and Thou thy Betters give a supercilious Nod but don't stir thy Hat from its Block shake Hands with good Sense forswear true English decry Scripture revile Magistrates reproach Ministers cast off Ordinances gratify the Desires of thy Carnal Heart follow the Dictates of thy muddy Brains whenever thy giddy Head turns round pretend to Visions and Revelations and when thou art thus accounted read the Quaker's Books and keep close to their silent Meetings and thou art in a very fair way to get this rare Secret And if thou hast a Wind-Mill Head a Brazen-Face and Leathern Lungs get upon the Stage which the Brethren have erected for John Gannaclist and Joseph Nott and thou mayest quickly get as much Custom and do as fine Feats as they If I have not hit upon our Author 's Meaning when he talks of the Light in the Heart and Conscience desire him to explain himself and tell plainly what he means by it And that this Hocus-Pocus may not gull thee by his Leger-demain or sob thee off with such a Banbury-Tale as he did Mr. Hallet in Answer to his first Query (a) Gospel-Truths Scripturally asserted Pag. 4. where his Description of this Light leaves us in the dark get him if thou canst without Quibbling or Canting to return a plain and direct Answer to these few Questions Q. 1. Is this Light of Jesus Christ in the Heart and Conscience God or Creature Finite or Infinite Q. 2. Is it Christ himself who was Crucified without the Walls of Jerusalem or something distinct from Christ If he say 't is Christ himself inquire of him Whether this Light in every Man's Heart and Conscience was born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate died upon the Cross ascended into Heaven after its Resurrection and sitteth at the right Hand of God All these things we know are true of Christ Q. 3. If he say it is something distinct from Christ Ask him Whether it be a Body or a Spirit If he say it is a Body as Bar●lay Apol. Pag. 94. 'T is vehiculum Dei The Spiritual Body of Christ the Flesh and Blood of Christ which came down from Heaven Desire him to deal freely with thee as a Friend and inform thee How this Flesh and Blood can be in so many 1000 Hearts and Consciences at once as there are Men and Women upon the face of the Earth How a Body can reach from Pensylvania to Exon Whether it be Omnipresent Whether the Quaking-Priest have learnt of their Elder Brethren the Papists the knack of Transubstantiation How a Body tho' purer than Spirit of VVine rectified could come by Knowledge and Understanding And how it can communicate it to a Spirit Quest 4. If he say 't is a Spirit know of him whether it be a created and finite or an Uncreated and Infinite Spirit If it be a created Spirit inquire of what Species whether a good Angel a malicious Devil or a rational Soul If he say 't

high and honourable Office of the Ministry who as they are neither able nor apt to Teach so they were never call'd to it nor sent about it And if it be a Sin for J. N. and such as he to Preach Can it be safe Reader for thee to Hear How durst thou by thy presence harden and encourage them in their Sin The Pride of their Hearts could not continue them Preachers Didst not thou and others it may be the more for thee maintain them Hearers If thou be one who hopest to live in Heaven take heed of countenancing and hardening Illiterate Vnordained Mechanicks who intangle themselves with the Affairs of this Life † 2 Tim. 2.4 in their proud Invasion of this Sacred Office for which without Repentance they must howl in Hell for ever The second Text is 1 Cor. 1.21 For after that in the wisdom of God the World by Wisdom knew not God it pleased God by the foolishness of Preaching to save them that believe From hence perhaps the Quaker concludes that Folly and Ignorance are necessary Qualifications for the Pulpit And I know not but if Joseph Nott were in Italy where Ignorance and Vice seem the only Indelible Characters of the Clergy by entring into Religious Orders he might quickly be preferr'd to the Office of Confessor to some great Person seeing few are better stor'd with those Gifts which recommend Persons to that Imployment For the great Men at Rome as the Bishop of Salisbury * Letter from Rome informs us like to have to do with a poor ignorant Priest Accordingly some Celebrated Person 's Confessor was a great and notorious Blockhead head whom they us'd because a greater could not be found and whenever they found one better qualified that way if it were a Groom or a Footman that got into Priest's Orders they said they would certainly make use of him If J. N. would but go to Rome and shave his Crown this Penny Pamphlet would quickly get him Promotion But the Apostle Paul is not about to recommend real F●lly but to Caution the Corinthians against vain Philosophy To this end he tells them that tho' the prejudic'd Jewish Rabbies and conceited Grecian Sophi's accounted the Preaching of the Cross Foolishness and ridicul'd the Christian Teachers for exhorting their Hearers to believe in a Crucified Saviour as many of Joseph Nott's Friends do at this Day yet this was the only sound and rational Doctrine adapted to display the Wisdom of God and promote the Salvation of Souls Those who rejected Christianity perished in their Sins whereas those who believed in Christ whom the Apostle preached found his Preaching the highest Reason and that thereby the Power of God accompanying it they were made wise unto Salvation But if the Quaker's Preaching be like their Writing 't is Foolishness indeed which neither this nor any other Scriptu●e doth countenance or patronize The third Scripture in the Title Page is Isa 30.1 Woe to the Rebellious Children saith the Lord that take counsel but not of me that cover with a Covering but not of my Spirit These words are a Threatning against Israel because they would neither ask nor take God's Counsel They were about to send Embassadors to Egypt to desire Succour from Pharaoh against the King of Assyria They distrusted the Power and Goodness of God and trusted in an Arm of Flesh thinking to cover themselves from the approaching Storm under the Shadow of Egypt For refusing to use those Means which the Spirit of God by his Word and Prophets had directed them to and using unlawful Means to rid themselves out of Trouble they are call'd Rebellious and this Woe is denounced against them And what is all this to Mr. Tross unless to shew what a woeful Case he should be reduced unto if J. N. and his charitable Friends could have their will of him If he thought to do Execution upon him with a Text he might have cited Rev. 8.13 where are three Woes in one Sentence The last Text is Isa 44.24 25. The Lord frustrateth the Tokens of the Lyars and maketh Diviners mad turneth wise Men backward and maketh their Knowledge foolish In these Words the Lord sets forth his Almighty Power in frustrating the Predictions of the Magicians and Astrologers called Diviners because by holding Intelligence with some evil Spirit they foretold Things to come and Liars because God would make Things fall out contrary to their Prognostications and so prove them Liars notwithstanding the Light and Spirit within by which they were guided And when their Designs should be thwarted and their Reputation blasted Grief and Shame would drive them to Madness and Distraction And now Reader What canst thou Infer less from this Text than that whoever doth not jump with J. N. in every Opinion is a Liar a Diviner and a Mad man I have but one thing more to Reflect upon in the Title Page and that is this Tho' the Author by setting his Name to his Book hath let the World know to whom they are oblig'd for that rich Treasure of good Sense good Reason and good Language which a●e crowded into this little Volume the Scurvy Printer hath not so much as told us his Name or where he dwells so that we are not like to know who Midwiv'd this sweet well-favour'd Babe into the World SECT II. Remarks upon Joseph Nott's Preface The abuse of Prefaces Several Nonsensical and Erroneous Passages exposed The light within Described Wrested and misapplied Scriptures Explained J. N's Chief Talents summ'd up THE use which many a Trivial Writer makes of a Preface is to Wheedle his Reader into a Belief of some great Matters with which the Treatise will entertain him or to bribe his Judgment into a good Opinion of the Author's Piety Learning or Modesty How often are the Thread-bare Stories of glowing Zeal against the Errors and deep Commiseration of the Follies and Vices of the Times together with repeated importunities of Wise and good Friends employed to stand as Motives for the Publication of those Pamphlets which hardly live a Month to an end before they are burnt as Sacrifices to a Pipe or are doom'd to a more Ignominious Death in a Jakes * S●●m●ros metuentia Carmina Pers But whatever the Pretence be commonly Mr. Author 's good Opinion of his Composure was the main Spring that set the Press a going Those whose Skuls are like a House half Furnished having but little Stuff themselves are apt to think others have less Hence it is that when they light on a Notion that is new to them they make Archimedes's Proclamation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and being big with some odd Crochet have no Rest until the Printer hath deliver'd them of the ill-shapen Monster Our Illuminated Author a Man born to oblige the World by his refin'd Thoughts and rare Pa●ts as other Writers of great Note use to do fronts his Book with a Preface which serves as a Bush to a Blind Ale-House to