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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

is neither of these but a superiour sort of Spirit Ask him when it was created How he came to know the time And what Scripture he can bring to prove that there is any other Spirit than God Angels Devils and rational Souls except it be the Spirit of a Beast * Eccl. ● 21 that he means If it be not a Creature as Geo. Whitehead saith Christian Quaker Part 2. p. 28. Desire him to reconcile Barclay who says 't is a creature yea a Body with Whitehead who says 't is no creature Put home these Questions to him and if he doth not boggle and equivocate 't is ten to one but he will betray gross Ignorance or utter downright Blasphemy J. N. For the great Mystery which hath been hid from Ages and from Generations is Christ within the hope of Glory Col. 1.26 27. In these Verses which Joseph Nott for reasons best known to himself hath alter'd and curtail'd putting Christ within instead of Christ in you or among you as 't is in the Margin and leaving out a great part of them the Apostle informs the Colossians that the Gospel which was a Mystery lock'd up in Gods own Breast from Eternity and hid from a great part of the World in former Ages and Generations being wrap'd up in dark Prophecies and cover'd under a Vail of Legal Ceremonies was now by Christ and his Apostles made manifest to the Saints The Wall of Partition was broken down the Vail taken away and the Colossians who were in times past Idolatrous Gentiles alienated from God and enemies to God v. 21. had this Gospel which displays the Riches of Divine Grace made known to them The next clause 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being as St. Peter saith of some things in St. Paul's Epistles † 2 Pet. 3.16 hard to be understood this Prefacer being unlearned and unstable hath wrested it as he doth also other Scriptures to uphold his Error Being Ignorant of the Original he thinks which refers to Mystery whereas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being of the Masculine Gender hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for his Antecedent So Zanchy Qui 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 est Christus And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is not will in but either inter vos among you as 't is in the Margin or in vobis in you If we follow the Ma●ginal Reading this is the meaning Christ preached among you is the Riches of the glorious Mystery of Godliness Christ is the Sum and Substance the Pearl and Treasure of the Gospel If we read Christ in you then this is the sense Those Saving Graces Faith Love c. by which Christ dwells in your hearts Eph. 3.17 are the Evidences of your Title to and the grounds of your Hope of Eternal Glory Your hopes of Glory are founded not only upon what you have heard of the riches of Divine Grace thro' Christ in the Gospel but upon what Christ hath wrought in your hearts by the Gospel 'T is the Image of Christ the Graces of Christ which he hath wrought in you by his Word and Spirit that confirm your hopes of Heaven What Christ hath done and suffer'd for you and what he hath wrought in you His satisfaction for you and your union with him cause you to hope Thus Christ was in these Colossians thus he is in every true Believer But what is this to the Quakers light of Christ in every mans Heart and Conscience J. N. Therefore to the Spirit of God in thine own heart I do recommend thee as unto that which will give a true discerning and right understanding of the things of God as it is hearkened unto and obeyed J. N. But I advise thee Joseph and as many of thy Friends as shall read these Lines to Search the Scriptures and not to Trust your own hearts untill you have examin'd them by the Light of God's Word Lean n●t to your own Vnderstandings Beware least the Light within be darkness Believe not every Spirit nor every false Prophet who pretends to the Spirit of God For there are unclean lying seducing Spirits Spirits of Devils To the Law and to the Testimony Take heed to that sure Word of Prophecy as unto a Light that shineth in a dark place That Word if hearkened unto and obeyed will discover to you what the Spirit is which you are under the conduct and influence of Try the Spirit in your own hearts hereby If it shun this Light if it speak not according to this Rule 't is because 't is a black Spirit and there is no Light in it Many grieve and quench the Holy Spirit and provoke him to withdraw and then an evil Spirit enters into them blinds their eyes hardens their hearts and scars their Consciences and when such set up for Teachers of others The Blind lead the Blind and so both fall into the Ditch Thus I have at length wrought my way through the Preface And by these Notes upon the Obscure places of it he that can see beyond the top of his Nose may discern what are the chief Accomplishments of this Doughty Champion of the Quakers in the West viz. Gross Ignorance not only of the sense of Holy Scripture and its Original Languages but even plain English the only Tongue he hath a smatterring in Intolerable Pride in troubling the World with his Non-sense and Impertinence ●●●id Vncharitableness in railing at reviling and misrepresenting a Reverend Divine who gave him no provocation And to name but one more for by these we may take a scantling of his other good qualities Abominable Profaneness in vilifying maiming and wresting Scripture Some People blame Mr. Hallet because he did not expose the Ignorance and Error of this Joseph Nott and John Gannacliff another of the Gang in a Pamphlet of theirs written in Answer to his 27 Queries Perhaps he thought it needless seeing that Book is so horribly scurrilous and silly that it carries its confutation in its Forehead Or else he concluded it would be lost labour seeing that Tho' thou shouldest bray a Fool in a Mortar among Wheat with a Pestel yet will not his Foolishness depart from him Prov. 27.22 And were it not for that the Party are Cock-a-Hoop upon their new Authors and vaunt themselves of their Jannes and Jambres as Men of such Courage that none durst enter the Lists against them I should not have commented upon their nauseous idle Stuff I know 't is no credit to have to do with such Fellows And all the return I expect from that sort of Cattle is roaring and bellowing throwing dirt and calling all the odious Names which the Spirit who acts them shall put into their Mouths SECT III. Joseph Nott's Scurvy Commendation of Holy Scripture He and John Gannacliff elsewhere prefer the Light within before it The Scriptures prov'd to be the only supream and sufficient Rule The danger of setting the Light within every Man above God's Written Word J. N's first

Spirit thereby And if any Spirit would perswade us to receive any Doctrine or do any Action contrary to the Written Word we ought to abominate such a Spirit Besides the Confusion there is palpable Non-sense in these Expressions Christ is the Rule The Spirit is the Rule A Person may prescribe a Rule to another but cannot be a Rule himself any more than John Gannacliff is a Laste or the French King an Edict Yet further we have only the Quakers word for all that they affirm concerning Christs being the Rule and nothing that looks like Proof For those Scriptures which they have cited to this purpose will as well prove the Pope to be Christ's Vicar as Christ or the Spirit or Light within to be our Rule Therefore instead of following them any further in their impertinent citing and misapplying Scripture to exalt their Light within into the Throne of Christ and place of Holy Scripture I shall hint the Danger of this Opinion That the Light within every Man is the supreme Rule of Faith Worship and Manners 1. In this Opinion the Quakers join hands with the Papists and do their Work By denying the Perfection of Scripture they go about to take off People from the use of it They say the Light which is in all the Indians and Pagans is sufficient without the Scriptures No wonder then that they speak so slightly of Scripture as sometimes they do 2. They take the ready way to lull asleep their own Consciences when they alone shall be iudges of their own actions This Doctrine leaves every man to himself to believe and do what he pleases for he has no Rule to try his Spirit by 1 John 4.1 He is a Law to himself How doth this gratifie the Pride of mens Hearts when they think that they may do whatever they list And how is it possible to convince such men of their sin and folly who think themselves infallibly guided by the Spirit of Christ which as they say is the highest Rule superiour to the Letter as these Scoffers call the Written Word The Papists make the Man at Rome the Infallible Judge but every Quaker is a Pope in his own Conceit 3. According to this Opinion People are bound to receive the most absurd Notions that any Quaker shall dictate Yea they are bound to believe contradictions For the Light in one Quaker saith that the Light within is God but in another that 't is a Body as I have formerly prov'd Now suppose any Inlightned Sister at Exon should come with a Span-new-Light and tell the Quakers that 't is neither one nor 'tother they ought according to their own Principles to believe her for 't is Christ 't is the Holy Spirit that speaks by her for ought that ever they can prove to the contrary if they do not abandon this Opinion 4. This Doctrine gives up those who embrace it into the immediate hands of the Devil to receive his suggestions as inspirations and to take his impulses for the Commands of Christ and motions of the Holy Spirit But to return from th● Digression leaving the Quakers with their Leaden Rule and Dark Lanthorn Light Let us observe the Motions of our Author He thus proceeds J. N. Now such a one as the Latter is G. T. Prithee Joseph adorn thy Snout with that Instrument which the Men of the World call a pair of Spectacles and ken this same Passage a little Tell me if thou canst with all thy Light whom the word Latter does refer to Is G. T. a Quaker or is he a subtle endeavour or what is he where were thy Wits when this dark Expression dropt from thy Pen In thy Preface thou couldst not distinguish latter from former Here thou talkest of a latter where 't is hard to find any f rmer at all Joseph is this the way thou takest to confute Mr. Tross Get thee gone Brawl with a Tinker or squabble with a Porter but write no more Replies Thou tellest Reverend Mr. Hallet (a) Gospel Truths c. page 12. That working with his Hands was a thing he was never brought up unto And thy Pamphlet gives us to understand that thou wert never brought up to writing of Books If thou hast not some better way to get a Maintenance than by Printing Penny-Books I doubt thou wilt have but a cold Kitchen or wilt be forc'd to be chargeable to thy sound Brethren This Huckstering Trade of Retailing out thy Pamphlets at a Penny apiece will never hold long And perhaps thou mayst be called to account for making a Merchandise of the Word and seeking thy gain from thy Quarter (b) Ibid. J. N. For he greatly endeavours to prove That Jesus Christ was not in the beginning and that the World was not made by him which is contrary to the holy Scripture and he also endeavours to prove the first Day of the Week to be the Christian-Sabbath the which he hath no Scripture to prove as he himself doth acknowledge Here are the two Articles upon which Mr. Tross's Book stands indicted at the Quaker's Bar. 1. That he endeavours to prove that Jesus Christ was not in the beginning c. 2. That the first Day of the Week is the Christian Sabbath 'T is great pity Mr. Tross had not ask'd J. N's leave before he presum'd to publish such a Book in which are contained one Position contrary to Scripture and another which he hath no Scripture for if you will take J. N's honest word for it And who dares question the Truth of what a Man of Infallibity saith J. N. I shall set down some of his words in his Book First Concerning Christ Jesus in p. 4. He saith We say that it may be Orthodoxly denied and asserted That Jesus Christ did not make the World For the World was 4000 years before ever Jesus Christ was And in Pag. 5. he saith In the Old Testament Christ is prophesied of to come How could He then create the VVorld And in Pag. 12 he saith VVe have sufficiently answer'd that it was not the Lord Christ that created the VVorld And in Pag. 10. he speaking of (a) To help the halting Quak. over the Stile understand the time before the Fall of Man saith In which time there could not be so much as any need or use of a Jesus or a Christ nor was there so much as the least hint of him given by either Prophecy or Promise And then he saith Much less was he himself in Being And in Pag. 1●0 he saith I think I have shewn that the Lord Christ did not make the VVorld See here how dextrously this new Confuter goes to work to prove that Mr. Tross holds that Jesus Christ as Mediator or God-Man did not make the World but that it was made 4000 Years before the Incarnation of God the Son How industrious hath he been to skim the Book from P. 4. to P. 130. that he may make it clear that Mr. Tross doth affirm that