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A89757	A declaration or testimony given by Captain Robert Norwood under his hand, (the which was by him publickly read at a meeting in Ab-church before Mr. Sidrack Simpson together with many others;) April 21. 1651. Together with several his answers and desires, proposed to them for satisfaction after his excommunication; worthy the most serious consideration of all: now brought to publick view for clearing of truth, discovering of error, and his own vindication in reference to many unjust and untrue aspersions cast upon him.	Norwood, Robert, Captain.	1651 (1651)	Wing N1381; Thomason E632_1; ESTC R20899	10,098	16

spirit in reference to my own and others satisfaction in a sober orderly way an answer to these following quere's 1. What that Devil or Serpent was that is said to deceive Eve his or its nature and property what it is 2. Whether properly and truly there can be said to have beene or is any more then one devil serpent Satan or deceiver though he or it manifest it selfe several wayes and after divers manners 3. What the true and very Anti-Christ or false prophet is their nature property or quality what it is 4. Where the true and proper seate residence power or dominion of the devil Satan Serpent deceiver or Dragon is or this false Christ or false prophet is 5. Whereby or wherewith they are said to deceive or wherein the power or strength of their or it's temptation or deceit lyes 1. What the true and very Christ is who is said in Scripture to be the onely and alone light and life of the world 2. How and in what sence he is properly and truly saip to deliver us from sin death and hell 3. The true reall and very ground cause and end of his sufferings death or desolution resurrection and ascension as also his incarnation and intercession what they sigfy or hold forth to us and how or in what manner or sence we are to look upon them and what use we are to make of them since the scriptures both old and new are very mysterious as where Christ saith Except ye eat my flesh drink my blood you have no life in you and that he was that rock that followed them and that Manna that came down from heaven And Paul saith although he had known Christ after the flesh which could not be meant of a corporal knowledge yet henceforth would he know him so no more and he farther saith That Christ is the same yesterday to day and for ever An answer whereunto I desire on this day sennit here in this place before all the people in writing or else some other may in love peace and quietnesse have liberty to give answer thereunto And I do farther declare what ever man or men report accuse or charge me with blasphemy or any error or errors maintain●d countenanced orencouraged by me or any other thing or matter contrary to or against the laws of this Nation or prejudicial to this State or Common-wealth and do not duly prove the same against me is in the sight of God and man a slanderer back-biter and murderer and in case any the said crime or crimes be proved against me I shall desire no favour but shall willingly and readily give up my selfe to undergo and suffer what penalty or penalties soe ever by law is to be inflicted in such cases without the least partiality POSTSCRIPT To which Queres I could not obtain from Mr. Simpson any answer nor so much as whether he would or could answer them or no whether he did less then bely or blaspheme God before all the people I will not let them present judge And if I prove not him the Clergy of England generally who cry out of others for heresie blasphem●●●● greatest deceivers or falsifiers of the truth and Blasphemers as themselves call it in the Nation let me dy the death This I speake not to cast reproach disgrace or obloquie upon any ingenuous sober quiet peaceable-minded man or men but to stop the career of that spirit which drives more fariously to the ingaging the people more in blood then the Bishop did were their power and other advantages answerable Let therefore the moderation of your spirits appeare and judge not least you be judged for assuredly you are guilty of as great if not greater crimes then other men But stand still and be quiet in your selves that you may see the great sallvation the Lord is about to bring forth Be truly noble search as the Bereans did whether the things be so or no. It were much to be desired that the Clergy might once more be injoyned to assemble together to give an account to the people of whom and from whom they have received and taken so much of the sweat of their browes what that true very God and Christ is that they have so long talked of to the people It mayjustly be suspected from their preachings and practises that they have need of a Paul to shew them what that God and Christ is whom they ignorantly worship least the blind leading of the blinde both fall into the ditch To them all I propose these quere's hoping it will not be long before they shall receive answer under a known hand they being concerning such points in which they are daily conversant if not they must give the people leave to say there is little reason to continue the wages or stipends of such stewards who can give no account of their stewardship Or to beleeve them the true Embassadours of God and Christ when as they cannot tell us what their Lord and matter is Let them then forbear any more to binde the people to their faith and beleefe since themselves cannot give an account or reason of their own faith and hope that is in them Tell us also O ye dreamers where and what your Hell and Heaven is I acknowledge both Robert Norwood For Master SIDRACK SIMPSON SIR INstead of answering my Queries proposed or from Scripture duely proving my assertions errors I understand that you with your Church as you call it have excommunicated me I having long before come out from you having of my self left communion with you neither could I without sin any longer upon that account hold communion or fellowship with you the ground and reason whereof I forbear to publish at present because I will yet spare you You have also as I hear given me up to the Devill I therefore do here before all this people require of you whose duty I suppose they will all say it is to instruct teach and tell me what that Devil is to whom you have so given me up hoping you are not so ignorant as to give me up to him whom you know not or what his properties and qualities are And then what it is you have so given up whether the whole Soul body and spirit or what part power or saculty you have given up 3. What power right and authority you had so to do 4. Whether you have power again to deliver me from the devill Thereason why I require this is that I might get from under his power and dominion avoid and be delivered from his snares wiles and subtilties as I and all people ought to do Next I require for how long or untill what time you have given me up to the Devil If you say untill I repent you must then first prove from scripture that that which I have asserted is to be repented of and turned from and the contrary to be received embraced owned and walked in which is indeed true repentance which

A DECLARATION Or Testimony given by Captain ROBERT NORWOOD Under his hand the which was by him publickly read at a meeting in Ab-church before Mr. Sidrack Simpson together with many others April 21. 1651. Together with several his answers and desires proposed to them for satisfaction after his EXCOMMVNICATION Worthy the most serious consideration of all Now brought to publick view for clearing of truth discovering of error and his own vindication in reference to many unjust and untrue aspersions cast upon him LONDON Printed in the year 1651. A DECLARATION Or Testimony given by Captain ROBERT NORWOOD Under his hand the which was by him publickly read at meeting in Ab-church before Mr. Sidrack Simpson together with many others April 21. 1651. Wherein is laid downe his beliefe concerning God what he is who Christ is and what the Spirit is what the soul is what the body and spirit of man is and also his beliefe concerning the resurrection With certain quere's preposed concerning what the Divell Satan or Serpent is what Antichrist the false prophet or dragon is what the true and very Christ is Now brought to publick view for clearing of truth diseovering of erro and his own vindication in reference to many unjust and untrue Aspersions cast upon him I Do beleeve one God or one infinite eternal being which onely or alone gives a being to all things that are in whom from whom and by whom all things do confist exsist and subsist he to be unchangeable or immutable whose essence and presence is every where yet comprehended no where be onely having life in himselfe and is the alone life of all things whether visible or invisible in him I verily beleeve there is not the least variation or shadow of change for he I or I am That this same infinite eternal one hath given a three-fold declaration or manifestation of himselfe in One. I do farther beleev according to the Scriptures the declaration manifestation or outgoing of this infinit eternal being in or by the word in infinite wisdome and power in creation according to that which is written That by it all things were made and without it was made nothing that was made which is also called Christ or the first borne or onely begotten of the Father or the Anointed or anoining of God in which respect he is said to be the life and light of the world as indeed he is which I stedfastly beleeve and that this light as it 's written shineth in the darknesse though the darknesse comprehend it not and that he was in the world and the world was made by him though the world knew him not that he came to his own though his own received him not the same Christ I stedfastly beleeve to be my onely and alone light and life and salvation and so much and so far as I have attained him or it or rather he or it is risen up or brought forth it or himselfe in me so far I judge my selfe to live or be alive or saved or to have attained salvation and no farther and what ever else is in me I take to be of the flesh the devill or darknesse or sin or hell antichrist or of the false prophet for that which is borne of the flesh is flesh and that which is borne of the spirit is spirit That this Christ Word or Son is One with the Father in the Spirit I also stedfastly beleeve I do farther beleeve concerning the Spirit or Holy Ghost as it s called that it infinitely and eternally proceeded from the Father and the Son and that he is the immediate life and being of all things and is the alone true witnesse bearer to the father and the son John 5 6. and neither Father nor Son yet both Father and Son not three but One One intire simple undivided being in themselves whence in Scripture he is called sometimes the spirit of the father or God and sometimes the spirit of Christ in or by which spirit we have communion with the Father and the Son he in us we in him are by it made perfect in one which also is more or most properly called the spirit of truth or rather the spirit which is truth he onely and alone leading into all truth or the all of all truth which is God himselfe Concerning that we call main Paul distinguishes into three soul body and spirit The soul I take or beleeve to be of the divine essence for it 's said God breathed into him the breath of life and he or it became a living soul for so the Scripture renders the divine principle sometimes he sometimes it and indeed that which is there said to be breathed into man I cannot conceive to be lesse or other then his own essence or spirit there being nothing but himselfe to go forth from and in himself un●ous he in his Son by his Spirit stating himself in us though in weaknesse called elsewhere his Image or Spirit as where it s said My spirit shall not alway strive with man for that he also is flesh It 's called also the spirit of truth or which is truth true holiness or truth in holinesse and righteousnesse which image or life of God in man is confest by all or most if I mistake not neither was nor could be totaly or finaly lost though much defaced as they call it And truly as I conceive there must be and is a perfect truth in every created Creature according to its kind which is the invisible life and being of it the visibility being onely a representation or figure of the invisible life and glory according to that in the Romans That which may be knowne of God is manifest in them for God hath shewed it unto them for the invisible things of him that is hiseternal power and God-head are seen by the creation of the world being considered in his workes to the intent they should be without excuse By the God-head must be there meant Trinity in Unity Unity in Trinity yet every thing in its order kinde or end according to what he hath appointed every vessel to hold forth of himself according to that in the Corinths where it is said that there are bodies heavenly and bodies earthly and that the glory of the heavenly is one and theglory of the earthly is another and that one star differeth from another in glory yet all these but one in the union according to that Paul speakes in another place that there are several gifts and administrations yet but one spirit and all by one and the same spirit which perfect and invisible truth cannot be lesse or other then the divine essence Man carrying the beautious transparent splendor of the representation in this earthly creation yet is not God the Creature nor the Creature God for we must hold God and the created by God for could you speak all the invisible glories shadowed or held forth in the whole visible creation you could not speake God for