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A85129	Antichrists man of vvar, apprehended, and encountred withal, by a souldier of the armie of the Lamb. Otherwise, an answer to a book set forth by one that subscribes his name Edmund Skipp, preacher of the Gospel (as he saith) to a people at Bodenham in Herefordshire; but is found one that is acting Antichrists part disguised: but nakedly seen, & herein discovered in this answer to his book, called the Worlds wonder, or the Quakers blazing-starre. And in this answer he is discovered, and proved to be one that is chief in the service of the old dragon: who pretends in his book to discover the mystery of the Quakers, as he calls them, and to lay open a dangerous design: who is found out, that whilst he hath been pretending to be chief in discovering a plot, or Antichrists misterious actings, is found himself to be the chief plotter, ... / Written in Worcestershire by a servant of the Lord, the second moneth called April, 1655.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.; Smith, Humphrey, d. 1663.	1655 (1655)	Wing F470; Thomason E843_9; ESTC R202123	95,493	95

that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God-in him herein is our love made perfect that we may have boldness in the day of judgement because as he is so are we in this world 1 John 4.16 17. 10. We love him because he first loved us and manifested his love to us to beget our hearts and souls to love and obey him and this commandment have we from him that he who loveth God loveth his brother also vers 19 20. 11. By this we know we love the children of God when we love God and keep his commandments for this is the love of God that we keep his commandments and his commandments are not grievous to such as are born of God for whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world and this is the victory that overcometh the world even our saith 1 Joh. 5.2 3 4. 12. Who is he that overcometh the world but he that is born of God 1 Joh. 5.5 6. Joh. 3.5 6 7 8 of water and the Spirit not after the flesh nor after the will of man but after the spirit and according to the will of God Joh. 1. but as many as received him to them he gave powers to become the sons of God even to ●hem that believe on his name which were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of men but of God Joh. 1.12 13. and such as are born of God are in the life of faith known the witnesses and he that Believeth ●n the Son of God and is of that birth hath the witness within and the record is there known and witnessed in the life eternal and we do through the mercies of God know the teachings and workings of Gods holy Spirit within us witnessing the faith and the birth and we do not believe and love one another only but we know that the Son of God is come also and hath given us an understanding to know him that is true and as they was and said so do we and we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ this is true God and life eternal and no delusion nor deceit but according to the teachings and workings of the spirit of truth and witnessed to by the Scriptures and the servants of truth 1 Ioh. 5.10 11 12. 20. and friends and brethren who are out of the envy and hatred in the divine love and so out of the old life in the new passed by the Lord. Page 28. And where thou sayes They are under the great bondage and slavery which is laid upon them by Satan who captivates them at his will Reply Then it is by the Satanical Ministers and tything and hierling Priests that bondage and bring into prisons for speaking the truth and declaring against their false Antichristian Ministery The servants of Christs bondage by the Ministers of Antichrist as many by their means hath so been brought into bondage and outward imprisonment and could not have liberty to declare and spread abroad the truth because Satan in and by his false deceitful Ministers caused some to be laid hold on and put into prison and thereby acting the divels part brought some into bondage which by the devil in his Antichristian Ministers were laid upon even such servants of God as were Antichrists opposers and so that Scripture were fulfilled where it is said the devil shall cast some of you into prison and ye shall have tribulation for a t●me and so the devils Ministers hath in that acted their part to bring into bondage the servants of the Lord take notice or that ye Satanical persecuring Antichristian Ministers who bondage and imprison the servants of the Lord and you that are by them so imprisoned be faithful unto death and you will receive the crown of life Head Rev. 2.10 And whereas thou says They are made to suffer more cruel and heavy burthens then she Israelites under Pharaon in Egypt Page 28. Reply Then it is by the Satanical Priests and Antichristian Ministers as before and not onely by our bonds and imprisonments but also by causing them to pay the tenths of their yeerly increase of hey and corn The tithing and hireling-Priests false Antichristian Ministers are cruel oppressors of the people of God as Pharaoh was and tithe lamb and wooll money for Mar●● and foals money for kine and calves money for eggs and smoak passing the chimmeys and their geese and piggs tithe hemp and flax tithe apples and cherries Easter reckonings and Midsummer dues as they call them and causeth such to pay those things to whom they do no service except to revile them and ●ail against them and such as cannot for conscience sake towards God pay these demands to uphold an Antichristian Ministry captivates or imprisons them at his will and thus they suffer more cruel burthens by them then Israel did by Pharaoh for I do not read that ever Pharaoh did after that manner therefore you Antichristian Ministers be ashamed of your Ministery Page 40. And thou thy self saith in Page 40. That They forsake father and mother wife and children for Christs sake and they endure much affliction persecution opposition and disgrace from the men of the world c. Reply By that thou hast proved them to be none of the world but such as love Christ above all Mat. 10. 37 c Luk. 9.23 c. and art thou offended and all this while slandering and reviling them for their love they bear to Christ by doing his will and following him according to Gospel discipline The people and servants of Christ suffers affliction persecution and reproach from the men of the world for the love they have to Christ by following him and doing his will and reproving of sin rule and doctrine and so suffers for his names sake as such aforetimes did that believed loved obeyed and followed him and it is the portion from the world that His must e●pect to be afflicted persecuted and suffer reproach which thou calles disgrace from the men of the world and so here thou hast cleered them to be the chosen people of God that are chosen out of the world to suffer for Christs sake as they do and by this thou hast also cleared thy self to be none of the friends and disciples of Christ but one of the world for they are reproached and slandered by thee and so by the world and therefore thou lovest them not because they are not of the world and makes good the Scripture and saying of Christ who said to his If the world hate you ye know it hated me and so thou hates his and therefore hates him and saith he to his if ye were of the world the world would love its own but thou loves not us because we are not of the world but are chosen out of the world to declare against the evil of it and therefore thou art offended but we must do the will of the Lord and

did not walk after the flesh but after the spirit and though there be no condemnation to them that are in Christ who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit who witnesse the Law fulfilled in them and so are led by the Spirit and made more then Conquerers through him that loved them who are sons and heirs of God Rom. 38. Chap. and 1 Iohn 1 22 9. and Gal. 3.29 Gal. 4.6.7 1 Iohn 2.20.27 Yet such as are not sons but bastards The unrighteous who walk in the flesh and fulfi●l the lusts hereof are out of Christ and under a state of condemnation lu● they are now warned and left without excuse happy a●e they if th●y return to the Lord by forsaking the evill of their wayes but if they do not ●wo c. who walk not after the spirit but after the flesh such as are unrighteous and unrighteousness is transgression of the Spiritual Law Read 1 Iohn 3.4 and verse 10. such are under a state of condemnation take notice of that all the proud and lofty ones al the covetous oppressors lyers swearers false-accusers haters back-biters scoffers scorners coseners cheaters envious and malicious ones Rom. 1.27 29 30 c. and take notice of it all you unrighteous ones of what sort soever and you that plead for a continuance insin yet walk after the flesh Remember you are under a state of Condemnation are transgressors of the Righteous Law ye unrighteous ones therefore return from your unrighteousnesse or else you shall in no wise inherit the Kingdom of God and this I testifie unto you from the Spirit of the Lord say not but that you are warned I am clear from your blood now that I have warned you from the Lord and if you will not take warning to turn from your unrighteousnesse your blood be upon your own head and in your condemnation from God the light of God in your consciences that reproves you for sin will also be a swift witnesse against you and upon you Answer it will the Judgments of God to be just therefore take warning now whilest you have time least you die in your sins and perish and be shut out from God and cast into everlasting burnings and eternall torment also Read and Consider of those Scriptures Rev. 20.10 15 2 Th●s 1.8 9. 1 Cor. 5.9.10 Gal. 5.19 20 21. Rev. 14.9.10.11 Mal. 4.1 Rev. 21.8 27. Read Ezek. 33.11 12 13 c. Ezek. 3.17 18 19 c. you may see before the Reward of the unrighteous and now you are warned And where thou says It is a most devillishire and delusion to conceave that any who are one with God in●●●●ist shall undergo the wrath of God in that manner they speak of by this they make the death of Christ of none effect citing Hebrews the 9. They that are one with God in Ch●●sta●e freed from si● ●●d ●o from wrath Reply The death of Christ we witnesse to be of great effect and as before is proved also according to the 9 of the Hebr which witnesseth what before is said but thy conceaving fallacy we deny which lies in these words That any who are one with God in Christ shall undergo the wrath of God in such manner c. we deny the conceit and thy fallacy both and we charge thee to be a lier and false accuser for we do not say that such as are one with God in Christ shall suffer the wrath of God in such a manner there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ as before is said and that we witnesse and who walk in the light Christ is light and such as walk in him receaves the Light of life I●hn 1.9 Iohn 8.12 and he leads to God the Father of Lights and in him there is the love perfected 1 Iohn 4.16 17. and he that walks in the light as he is in the light hath fellowship with the Father and Son and there is a cleansing from all unrighteousnesse and a dwelling in the divine Love and so the Unity is witnessed as Christ hath said Iohn 14.30 and he that abideth in him sinneth not 1 Iohn 3.6 neither can he sin verse the 9. and there is a freedom from sin and unrighteousnesse the cause of wrath and so a freedom from sin A freedom also from wrath to such as are one with God in Christ so this conceit and fallacy being denied and truth set in its Right place the people thou calls Quakers are not in the delusion because not within the compass of thy saying whereby they would prove them so then thy ground being ript up thy fallacy taken away Truth is cleared and thou art ensnared or in the delusion thy self that art in the lies and false-accusaions take notice of this The Serpent and his seed are shut out from God under the wrath and vengeance 2 Thess 1.6 7 8. But ye the Serpent and his seed are in the unrighteousnesse and not in God for there is no fellowship agreement nor concord betwixt them 2 Cor. 6.14.15 but enmity is placed betwixt the two Seeds and such as are of the Serpents seed as thou art must know the wrath and vengeance of God for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodlines and unrighteousnes of men who hold the Truth in righteousns Rom. 1.18 take notice of that all ye unrighteous ones as is said before for it is a Righteousness things for God to Recompence to tribulation to the unrighteous and such as trouble his 2 Thess 1.6 7. And where thou says When you have weighed it see whether it can stand with the Lords Justice to call any of his servants to bear so in their bodies and spirits as they do his Iust and exact Judgment untill he have wrought out of them his own Satisfaction and Recompence in that nature The World are not to Judge the Laints but the Saints shall Judge the the World Reply The naturall man knows not the things and teachings nor workings of the Spirit of God because they are spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2.14 and such thou calls to judge and trie c. For thou calls upon the World to judge and the World trie thy expositions and tenents and the World are not to judge the Saints nor the Spirits workings teachings and actings yet the Saints must judge the World 1 Cor. 6.2 1 Cor. 2.15 therefore thou and the Judges in the carnall are with the Spirit of Truth judged through the eternal with that which sets up Judgment and Justice in the new Creation and we are the wormanship of God in Christ Jesus created again and changed by the operation of his spirit into the pure Image again 2 Cor. 3.17.18 and so we are out of the unrighteousness in the Righteous where the true Justice is set up through the Judgment therefore you cannot Judg us who are in the life of Truth with your earthly carnall mindes which is shut out not being

ANTICHRISTS MAN of VVAR Apprehended and encountred withal by a Souldier of the Armie of the Lamb. OTHERWISE An Answer to a Book set forth by one that subscribes his name Edmund Skipp Preacher of the Gospel as he saith to a people at Bodenham in Herefordshire but is found one that is acting Antichrists part disguised but nakedly seen herein discovered in this Answer to his Book called the Worlds Wonder or the Quakers Blazing-Starre And in this Answer he is discovered and proved to be one that is chief in the service of the old Dragon who pretends in his Book to discover the mystery of the Quakers as he calls them and to lay open a dangerous design who is found out that whilst he hath been pretending to be chief in discovering a Plot or Antichrists misterious actings is found himself to be the chief plotter by a Satanical spirit disguised and in the transformings of Antichrist deep in the mystery which he pretended to disdiscover but is here apprehended and taken and also encountered withal as the wise-hearted in the reading with a pure understanding may see and so this may prove to be a means of a greater downfal of Antichrists Kingdom and for the furthering of the truth and setting up of purity in its right place and by this Truth and Error may be clearly known asunder that deceit may thereby be forsaken and Truth embraced and received as it is in Life and Power in the Lord Jesus who hath said Ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free Iohn 8.32 Written in Worcestershire by a servant of the Lord the second Moneth called April 1655. LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-Spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1655. To my Friends and Wel-wishers that desire the welfare of Sion and prosperity of Jerusalem and to all who suffers reproaches and are reviled for righteousness sake in Hereford-shire Worcestershire Warwick-shire and elsewhere under the nick-name of Quakers THe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Bless Preserve and keep you in your faithfulness and obedience to Himself and in your diligent watchfulness and circumspect walking blamelessly before him and lovingly one to another and the Lord God of life and power settle you and establish you by his eternal spirit in the life and Power of Truth that you may walk before him in love and grow up into the pure divine excelency that you may be able to comprehend with all Saints to know what is the heighth and depth and length and bredth of the love of God that you may be comprehended into the infinitness of His incomprehensibleness and be as a peculiar people to bring praise to the Lord and if you be reproached and reviled and persecuted for righteousness sake happy are you reioyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward Dear hearts you that are so accused and slandered by the Serpent and his seed walk in wisdom and blamelesly and you will feel the pure Joy spring up into your souls to fill your understandings Oh! be faithful to the Lord and valiant for the truth that as Antichrist bestirs himself seeking to prop and uphold his Kingdom and to cast out revilings and false accusations as a mighty floud so you may be watchful over him in every place and resist him in the Faith and be able to stand in the gaps and so be keptsafe and be ready to make war against the Dragon that in the Lords strength you may be Crowned with victory and be made to triumph in His strength and all wait in the measure of the grace of God to receive wisdom from above and to be filled with the riches of the grace of God and so every one to walk as you have received the Lord Jesus rooted and grounded in him that the Eternal may rule in you all that you may be made valiant Souldiers to follow the Lamb and fear not the rage nor cruelty of the old Dragon but stand in the pure Being and so as you abide in the measure of the grace of God received you will grow strong and valiant in the Lord and be able to pass over the deceived and to withstand the Deceiver For greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world 1 John 2 24. So I am with you in the divine Being of love and you may read my name in the Book of life One who suffers with you for the Testimony of the Truth of our Lord Jesus Christ and reproached as you are by the name of Quakers R. F. Antichrists Man of War apprehended c. OR A Reply to Edmund Skipp's Book of slander and false Judgment by him called the Worlds wonder or the Quakers BLAZING-STAR MEeting with this Book upon the 28. of the Month called March in my travel in Worcestershire I was constrained to stay a few dayes to return an Answer thereunto for the simple ones sake to clear the aspersions and remove the stumbling blocks throwen in the way to cause the weak to stumble and fall And at the first view of the Book it set seemingly a great face against the truth but through the mercy of God I was made not to matter it but joyn battel against it Therefore Edmund Skipp as thou hast subscribed thy come thou hast abundantly laid open thy folly and shewed thy enmity and despite to the Truth but thou art encountered and thy deceits are discovered and laid naked and bare to any single eye as hereafter will appear I only meeting this Book of thine in my travel and both seeing and knowing that thou hast written it from a spirit of pride and despite to the spirit of Truth and against the Servants of our Lord Jesus by thy spirit of delusion coloured over with shows and pretences of godliness and a feigned humility intruding thy self into those things which thou hast not seen vainly putt up with a fleshly mind with a cover of fallacies and feigned humility and to thy first Doctrine that thou and such pretenders to be nearest the Lamb an speaking of but appears like the old Dragon in wrath against the Truth and Servants of our Lord Jesus Christ who thy self might formerly have lived Pharisee like till thou were discovered but now hast manifested thy wolfish heart and thou art slandering and accusing such as follows the Lamb not in pretences but in reality and purity whom thou revilest under the name of Quakers And thou art constrained to complain because as thou saiest thou hast lost thy society and even as it were now goes a begging to those people thou calls Baptists as in the latter end of thy book doth appear and now that Satan hath got a cheif seat in thy heart and entred into thee through that spirit of delusion thou speaks of thou ventest thy solly in acting his part in reviling the Servants of the Lord and defaming the truth And whereas thou saies that when Satan findeth a people living

left in the snare which thou hast laid and the p●t which thou hast d●gged and sounder the delusions and mysterious workings of Antichrist as to the single eye will clearly appear thereby will the innocent by thee called Quakers be cleared though thou and the wicked through plotting mischief be ensnared and seared that all simple hearts may take warning and be preserved who have the living God in any measure truly seared and served by doing his will in departing from the workings of Antichrist by his own power in himself and also though his Antichristian Ministers being as thou art transformed as a Minister of righteousness beguiling the ignorant through the mysterious actings by a Satanical spirit of Antichrist in that mystery of iniquity with thy lying wonders c. 2 Thes 2.9 10 11 12. Now I shall speak to clear the truth from some of thy accusations and slanders that deceit may be cast out and truth stand clear as hereafter will appear First To that in thy tenth page where thou seeks to render the people of God odious which thou calls Quakers and one chief thing thou accusest them withal and lays as a ground to work on and that is thou says their railing and speaking ●uch languages to all sorts of people and Rulers and Magistrates c. which doth as thou says discover a spirit of delusion error c. Now if I prove that that they do not as thou says then thou wilt be found to be what thou would charge them withal and so they cleared and thou left to be known thereby to be guided by a spirit of error and in the delusions and mysterious workings of Antichrist thou speaks of But I shall prove that those thou calls Quakers are not as thou says therefore thou art the deceiver and in the delusions c. an the people thou calls Quakers redeemed from such things and stands clear To thy second Rule whereby thou says thou wilt find out where Satan doth colour over and blind this fallacy with some Scripture words and instances And that is first as thou says their rayling and says they count it not railing but a sharp rebuking and reproving men with authority c. quoting Thus 1.13 and 3.15 and those are the places thou says Satan covers himself under and that of Nathan to David when he said thou art the man and that of Christ to Peter when he called him Satan I answer Satan cannot cast out Satan and a Kingdom divided cannot stand thou deceiver and subtil serpent doth or will Satan discover and reprove his own deceivableness No he will not strike at his own Kingdom to root it out The fallacy thou speaks of that is thy own turned back upon thee again and the Scriptures which thou hast cited we witness and own the authority spoken of but they are no covers for deceit as thou says therefore in that thou art the false accuser and lyer against the truth and truths friends thou art a stranger to the life of truth and them and that which thou calls rayling is to tell thee and men of the evil of their ways for in the second place thou says they charge men with hypocrisie aod so take the example of Christ to call men hypocrites here thou shews thou art offended at truth for declaring against the deceit and so art judged out of thy own mouth and by thy own works who art in the hypocrisie and therefore an hypocrite for we cannot follow any better examples then Christ Jesus and his true Prophets and Apostles for we are required so to follow them as for our examples and we do not err●n so doing but are accepted for obeying Christ and h●s Commands and following him for our example and the e●ample of such Eph. 5.1 1 Co. 11.1 and thou art offended at that and that the seed of God should sharply reprove and rebuke the serpents seed and the man of sin and darest thou say there was sin or deceit manifested by Paul forb●dding Titus reprove and rebuke with authority or was that any rayling and reviling in him and such to obey the commands of the spirit of truth as Nathan did and such as are sent as he was from God sent to tell David he was the man and Christ Jesus himself to Peter Get thee behind me Satan And as it was no sin nor deceit in them to say so being guided thereunto by the Lords sp●r●t then it is not deceit error nor delusion for such now so to say being thereunto as they was guided by the Lords holy Spirit to say so to whom they are so sent and to say as they are by the Lord required but thou and the Serpents seed are offended at the righteous judgment and language of the Spirit of Truth therefore thy sayings against such are false and so thou judgest amiss to call it rayling and reviling speaking against sin and dece●t and to speak plainly to Teachers People Rulers and Magistrates according as their Cond●t●ons are c. As I shall prove by several Scripture e●amples and then let all the children of light judg and not the world which thou calls to judg of thy sayings who are in deceit as thou art and cannot judg aright but therein thy folly and enmity is discovered and for colouring delusion error and deceits with pretences and seemingly from the Scriptures by-fallacies c. none more guilty of that sin than thou art and the Hireling and Tything-Priests and such false Antichristian Ministers that are in union with Antichrist as thou art being so acted and guided by a Satanical spirit in all his mysterious actings being turned back and according to thy sayings in thy 11. page and the judgments woes c. against Kendal in the North shall stand But that which proceeds from the Spirit of truth and the true Power of the living God in His Sons and Daughters which thou calls rayling is not as thou says but are words of truth therefore thy second Rule for the discovery of the mystery thou tells of is false a lying fallacy so error and deceit therefore thou art a false Judg and so guided by an erronious spirit of delusion to judg amiss of the Saints practice by thy delusion error and deceit Example 1. To speak truth in plainness by the spirit of truth to Priests People Rulers or Magistrates is no railing but according to the Scriptures and practise of the Peop of God as is here by these Examples proved to be a witness for the truth and against E. S. lies error and all decei For first When the Lord sent the Prophet his servant Isaiah to speak to the bl●nd watch-men and greedy Sheapherds of Israel who had transgressed the first Covenant c. he called them beasts and said All ye Beasts of the field come to devoure His Watch-men are blind they are ignorant they are all dumb-dogs yea they are greedy dogs which have never enough they all look to their own way

the teachings of the Spirit of Truth and also edifying one another in Love building up into the most holy Faith is well pleasing to the Lord and comfortable one to another and so by letting our Light shine forth to others and bringing forth fruit with an encrease in the graces of the Spirit hereby we glorify our Heavenly Father Iohn 15.5 8. Reply Thy fallacy or sting in thy tail we deny which lies in those words as they fancy it but the waiting and stirring of that which is pure and the immediate teachings of the Spirit we witnesse and own and herein thou hast manifested thy self to all the Children of light to be ignorant of the stirrings workings teachings and actings of the Spirit of Truth and so art in the fancy thou tells of and as thou calls it thy self and in this thou hast cleared thy self to be no Minister of the Spirit nor New Covenant that art ignorant of the immediate teachings of the Spi●●● but the immediate teachings of the Spirit we witnesse as the Minister of Christs in the Spirituall ministration did who were made able Ministers not of the Letters but of the Spirit as they did witnesse 2. Cor. 3.6 And no Prophesie of the Scripture came in old time by the will of man but holy of men of God spoke as they were moved by the holy Ghost 2. Pet. 1.21 and that were not mediate by man but immediate by God and as they waited the holy Ghost immediatly spoke and said Separate me Sarnabas and Saul Acts 2.1 2 3 4. for the work whereunto I have appointed them Act. 13.2 and as Philip was travelling immediatly the Spirit taught him and said Go and joyn thy self to the Charet c. Act. 8 29 30. But thou that art ignorant of the immediate teachings thou art ignorant of the Spirit of God and so thy Ministry is mediate of man and not of God therefore no Minister of the Spirit and the Gospell and in that thou hast clearly also discovered thy self to be an Antichristian-minister and so in the delusions thou speaks of they turne back upon thee and are there to Remain Paul an Apostle and Minister of the Gospell was not made by mediate meanes that is not by man but He was made immediate and that was by God Gal. 1.1 And I certify you brethren that the Gospel which I preach unto you I received it not mediate of man but immediate of God take notice of that Gal. 1. neither was I taught it of man but of God vers 11.12 and by Revelation and that was not mediate but immediate vers 15 16. then foutteen yeares after Paul went up to Ierusalem by Revelation Gal. 2.12.12 the Myistery was made known unto him by the immediate teachings of the Spirit even by Revelation Eph. 3.2 3 34. But thou that art ignorant of the immediate teachings of the Spirit of God doth not know the Father nor the Son for there is no True Knowledge of them but 〈◊〉 ●●clation Math. 11.27 and that is by the Immediate Teachin● 〈…〉 man knowes the Father but the Son and he to whomsoever 〈…〉 will reveal him Luk. 10.22 take notice of that and all that denies the immediate teachings of the Spirit of God Remember you as well as Edmund Skip have cleared your selves to be no Disciples of Christ nor Ministers of the Spirit but it is good that Fools utter their folly as thou hast done thine take notice and read 2 Tim. 3.8 9. And where thou art Reckoning up many things by thy busie minde in thy 22 23 and 24 pages and judging of their conditions with thy thoughts and summes or gathers some Scriptures together also to busie thy mind about Edmund Skips Confutation who art a Stranger to the life of them as doth appear And thou says the Words of Paul are very much abused by the false interpretation of their enemy I Answer Thou hast whipt thy self with that Rod for thou art their enemy then the words of Paul are very much abused unto them by by the false Interpretations of thee their enemy therefore be thou ashamed and blush thou enemy of the Righteous and abuser of Pauls words by thy false interpretations whereby thou seeks to cover thy lies slanders and false accusations but Antichrist even besools thee and lets thy nakedness appear thy covers will not hide thee but leaves thee bare take notice of this And that which thou calls a Grand Assertion of theirs and thou would have the world to give their judgement of it and that is concerning hell which the wicked go in at c. A Reply to that which thou calls a grand Assertion concerning Hell c. I answer How should the world or wicked give any true judgement concerning it seeing the wicked and all that forgets God shall be turned into hell Psal 9.17 and the naturall man knows not the things that stands in the counsel of God because they are spiritually discerned and so he is not able to judge them 1 Cor. 2.14 and yet thou wilt have the world to try thy expressions and renents thou speaks of they who are in the dark part with thee are not able to judge aright but thou and thy expressions and ●enets are all seen and comprehended with the light and with the light condemned and hell hath enlarged her self and opened her mouth without measure and the proud and wicked Mal. 4.1 and their glory and their pompe and their multitude shall descend into it Isa 5.14 and then wo to all the Lords enemies and adversaries Mat. 25.41 to the end and z Thess 1.6 7 8 9. Rev. 21.8 And that fallacy of thine I deny which thou art to prove if thou canst or else ensnared thou art and taken with a horrible lie and the lake for the liar is prepared and then hell and torment is the re●●ed of such take them a long with thee that are in the m●● 〈◊〉 ●orkings of Antichrist willing to be kept in his deceiv●● 〈◊〉 for the devil that deceiveth them that are spoken of R●v 2● 10 the beast and false prophet and all such are to be cast into the lake of fire and brimstome and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever Rev. 20.10 11. and all who are not found written in the Lambs book of life are cast in thither c. vers 14 15. then take notice of this all ye wicked and ungodly ones And where thou sayes in Brevity thou hast given the mysterious deceit it self I answer thou hast accused with many lies and slanders and those are from the old serpent covered over with smooth pretences but thou art clearly seen and found to be in that mysterious working of Antichrist thou speaks of and so guided by his spirit whose coming is after that manner spoken of even with all deceivableness of unrighteousness 2 Thess 2.9 c. and so in short thou hast cleared thy self from the teachings and workings of God by

Antichrist in h●s mysterious actings thou speaks of and though thou be exalted in the delusions by Satans transformings in the working so disguised through that mysterious vail yet thrown down thou must be who art in the delusions and so overcome with deceit by the subtil stratagems of Satan thou speaks of therefore let all that fears God take heed of thee and thy delusions and the mysterious workings of Antichrist by whose spirit thou as well as his Ministers art Acted who art labouring through his deceitful power thou speaks of and working to bring other poor creatures into thy own Region of darkness and valley of death who art under the dominion of the prince of darkness the prince of the power of the air the spirit that ruleth in thee and all the children of disobedience such as thou art 2 Thess 2.9 10 11 12. In thy Pages 25 26. thou sayes They compare their sufferings and Ago●ies with those of Christ and they must suffer the wrath of God and the like as he did and yet reckon themselves the servants of the Lord. The Spirit of the Lord will prove this to be a horrible lie and delusion because that Christ suffered for his servants and bo●e the wrath and curse of God for them and made satisfaction to his Fathers law and justice in his own blood and his father was pleased to accept it c. Reply thy comparison and fallacy we deny where thou sayes they compare their sufferings and agonies with those of Christ and say they must suffer the wrath of God as he did The comparison is thy own and the fallacy lies in those words in thy third line as He did we do not say we must suffer r●●po● that cross at Mount Ca●vary Christs death of great effect who hath satisfied the justice of God for the breach of the first covenant and now estab●●shed the second to satisfie the fathers w●ath and justice for the transgressions under the first covenant as he did therein thou lies and accuseth falsly for he hath satisfied his fathers law and justice by suffering upon the cross at Mount-Ca●ary for the transgressions that were under the first covenant who through the eternal spirit offered up himself without spot to God and now in the new Covenant he doth purge our consciences from dead works to serve the living God and for this cause he is the Mediator of the new Covenant that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first Covenant they which are called might receave the Promise of eternall inheritance Hebr. 9 11 12 13 14 15. and we are called not onely to beleeve but also to suffer as they under the New Covenant that beleeved were did who said For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ not onely to beleeve but also to suffer for his sake having the same Conflict which ye saw in me and now hear it to be true Philip. 1 29 30. This spoke the Minister of the Gospel The Saints under the New Covenant do witness the sufferings of Christ in t●em c. who had suffered and born about in his body the dying of the Lord Jesus Read and understand 2 Cor. 4.10 and the same Minister of the Gospell did annex a suffering to beleeving and that in the behalf of Christ Philip. 1.29 and thy comparison and fallacy being taken away we witness such sufferings which thou appears to be a Stranger in and accuseth a people that witnesse the Power of God which worketh out salvation by fear and trembling which the Gospell Minister that spoke to the Philippians of to suffer as well as beleeve in his 2 Chapter 12.13 and also annexed obedience to faith and suffering to both and we know that Christ is the Author of our salvation that obey and serve him and His servants we are as well as sufferers for his Names sake who also is the Author of eternall Salvation to all that obey him Hebr. 5.8 9. this fallacy being taken away Truth we witnesse and a suffering Condition and that according to the teachings of the Spirit of Truth for Christs sake though not as he did upon the Crosse at mount Calvary to Redeem them that were under the Law from under it who fulfilled that Law and Covenant that were but Types and figures of him who took away the first and established the second Such as come not by the dore and through inward sufferings with Christ are strangers to the New Covenant and the theef is seen to be without c Hebr. 10. and as they who witnessed Christ under the New Covenant did witnesse a bearing about in their bodies the dying of the Lord Jesus so do we and the life manifest in our mortall bodies as such d●d 2 Cor. 4. And as they who were Ministers of the New Covenant and knew the terrours of Lord so do we therefore we perswade men to be Reconciled to God as they did who were his Ambassadours and Fellow-labourers with him 2 Cor. 5.11 and 2. Cor. 6.2 Cor. 2.15 16 17. And we know also that as the sufferings of Christ abound in us so our Consolation also aboundeth by Christ as theirs did 2 Corinth 1.5 and thou that art a Stranger to the inward suffering and so accuseth them who witness them thou manifests to all the children of Light whose servant thou art a Theef that hath climb● up another way and so never come in by the door and have I charge thee in the presence of the Lord to be no●● of his Ministers that art so ignorant of the Spirits works and teachings and by thy fallacies and living divinations casts slanders and Aspersions upon the Children and Servants of the Lord by thy subtilty and Serpent-tine wit who art that horrid lyer and the Spirit of God proves thee to be so that through a dirty fallacy thou would cast upon the Innocent bu● it is turned back upon thee to Remain plagues is the Serpents portion but thou art of the Se●pents seed a lier and false-accuser and plauges is thy portion silence deceaver and stop thy mouth with the true light art thou seen and comprehended and with the Light condemned And though Christ did make satisfaction to his Fathers Law Christ hath made satisfaction for the Law and there is now condemnation to such as are infreed from and Justice to fulfill that law which had been broken and through the fulfilling of it were his Justice satisfied yet that doth not free from inwards sufferings that law stood outwardly and was fulfilled and the Justice of God satisfied concerning the breach of it but now his Law is written within in the heart according to the tenour of the New Covenant that was given according to the Fathers Promis Ier. 13.13 c. Hebr. 8. So now the Righteousness of the holy Law of the Spirit of Life t is to be fulfilled in us as it was to be fulfilled in them that

subject to the Law of God and so judged with the power that brings forth judgment into Victory The body of sin is first within and those that know Redemption from it victory over it know●● the Power of God working within Secondly To come to thy sayings they are weighed and thou art seen to stand in thy will and unrighteous false Astronomicall judgment and the Secrets of God that stands in his Counsail are hid from such Astronomers and lyers as ●hou art who art all along catcht with the lye comed out of thy mouth and that which stands with the Divine Power of god stands with his Justice to let his servants bear about in their bodies his true Judgment which bringeth forth Righteousnesse and by the execution of his Justice sin is the reby condemned in the flesh so within their bodies for the body of sin is within and the just Judgement is executed upon it within so through the judgement upon the unjust comes the freedom of the Just by the working of the power of Truth in the Spirits ministration But thy fallacy we deny thy sting in thy tail yet it stands with the Justice of God to condemn sin in the flesh Rom. 8. For what the Law could not do in that it was week through the flesh God sent his Son to condemn sin in the flesh verse 3. and the freedom from the Law of sin and death is by the Law of the Spirit in Christ ver 2. and that is within in the body which Spirit that worketh within and executes Judgment upon him setting free from the same doth also quicken the mortall body verse 11. and Paul he bore about in his Body so did the rest the dying of the Lord Jesus that the life of Christ might dwell in their mortall flesh 2 Cor. 4.10.11 and these workings and actings was within in the body and he said from henceforth let no man trouble me for I bear about in my body the marks of the Lord Iesus It stands with the Justice of God to condemn sin in the flesh and to let his servants bear about in their bodies both the dying and sufferings of the Lord Iesus Take notice of that Gal. 6.17 and they had the sentence of death within themselves and that was in their bodies and the sufferings of Christ did abound in them 2 Cor. 1. and that was in their bodies and when Paul writ unto the Colossians he Rejoiced in his sufferings for them and was to fill up that which was behinde of the Afflictions of Christ in his flesh c. Coloss 1.24 25. and he knew the mighty Power of God which wrought in him mightily verse 29. the Power of God within and the afflictions of Christ in their flesh and the works of Christ in their body and the knowledge of the terrours of the Lord and the bearing about in their bodies the dying of the Lord and the sentence of death within them and the condemning of sin in their flesh and the sufferings of Christ did abound within them these things was witnessed by them in their bodies c. which Conditions thou art ●gnorant of and so never came in by the dore which dore and sufferings and the like the people of God now witnesse whom thou Skip doth slander and Revile but as for thy saying If we bear in our bodies and Spirits Gods just and exact Judgment until he have wrought out of us his own satisfastion and recompence c. thou speaks thou knows not what and as I said before so say I still thy fallacy we deny and thy sting in thy taile but we witness to the truth and sufferings with Christs as the servants of the Lord did and by the workings of his Spirit we witness sin condemned in the flesh Judgement brought forth into victory and sanctification by the Spirit of our God 1 Cor. 6.11 1 Cor. 1.30 but that point of sophistry is thy own and turns back upon thee again And where thou hast gathered several Scriptures together and art speaking about sanctification and saith in the last place will you consider how Paul doth reckon the fruits of the Spirit Gal. 5. as in thy 28. page Reply The sanctification we own and witness unto as I said before but we deny thy point of sophistry thou tells of A Point of sophistry denyed and that thou hast any thing to do either to Judge of the people of God or workings of the Spirit that art ignorant of his teachings and art iound to be the false accuser of the Brethren The divine power of God which worketh out the corruptions doth also sanctify the soul and bringeth forth the fruits of the Spirit as is here mentioned witnessed by us whom the world calleth Quakers yet we witness the Power of God which causeth to shake tremble and quake as the holy men of God did which the Scriptures also witnesseth And as we witness their conditions so we witness the fruits of the Spirit effected by the operation of the divine power which branches forth into love without dissimulation c. which love is kind envyeth not vanteth not it self is not puffed up nor revileth nor rejoyceth not in iniquity but is a support both of faith hope and patience and causeth to go comfortably through both afflictions and tribulations 1 Cor. 13. and the same power of life brancheth forth it self by the spiritual operation into joy which is not fleshly but spiritual such a Joy as no man can take away and this remaineth within also according to the saying of Christ Iohn 15.11 and this divine power bringeth forth another fruit of the Spirit in us whi●h is called Peace and such a Peace as the world cannot give but such a Peace as Christ giveth unto his spoken of in the 14. of John 27. verse and it brancheth forth into long-suffering gentleness goodness meekness temperance patience godliness brotherly-kindness c. as in Gal. 5.22 23. an●wering with 1 Cor. 13. chap. which speaks of the Spirits fruits and likewise agreeing with that Rom. 12. and 2 Pet 1 2 3. c. This we witness unto by the Spirits workings and teachings according to the measure and manifestation of of the Spirit of truth and according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and vertue 2 Pet. 3 4 5 6 7 8. Where thou says first whatsoever journey Satan shall suggest unto them they must undertake if it be a hundred or two hundred miles Page 29. Reply That is false and not true and here thou art charged to be an open lyer and false accuser satans suggestions we deny and turn thy saying back upon thee again and we also deny his service he is thy Teacher and Master who hath so taught thee to lye and falsly accuse and thou undertakes to do his service but thou must receive thy

do not hate our Brethren then thy necessity is taken away and we shall not be under delusion nor a deceaved People neither will the Apostle John render us to be so but on the contrary witnesse with us to be the children of th● Lord and Friends and Brethren in Christ and so we are shall thereby be cleared for what thou falsely would charge upon us and doth slander us withall But we whom thou calls Quakers and reviles under that name we know that we are the servants of God and bought with a Price and being called in the Lord we are his free men and so we Reckon our selves also to be Brethren and not the servants of men but of God abiding with him in that calling wherein we are called 1 Cor. 7.22 23 24. and so let every one abide in the same calling wherein he is called of the Lord ver 20. and serve him in what he requires Presenting also their body as a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which is their reasonable service Roman 12. and being born again not of corruptible seed but incorruptible seeing we have purified our souls in obedience to the Truth through the Spirit we love one another with a pure heart servently according to the Gospell discipline Rule fellowship and doctrine as such did who were of that Birth and Seed 1 Pet. 1 22 23. and so we witnesse as such did that he who sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are of him and he is not ashamed to call them his Brethren Hebr. 2.11 12. and we being so born sanctified and taught we Reckon such as are of that Seed and Birth in the Sanctification to be also our Brethren and we do not hate but dearly tender and love them and we also reckon that the suffering condition is not to be compared to the Glory revealed within by comming through the suffering Rom. 8.14 15 16 17 18. and we know that our brethren before who were led by the Spirit did also witnesse the same and we know moreover as the sufferings of Christ do abound in us so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ Praised be the Lord for the Riches of his Love 2 Cor. 1.5 1 John 3. Then it being that we are of the New Birth in the calling and brother-hood and have acknowledged witnessed that we are Servants of God and Brethren in and by Christ and that we do not hate but love our brethren it must needs be that we are not under any delusion according also to thy saying E. S. Being proved and tried and back-returned thy fallacy taken away and truth set up in its place and therefore thou being sound the subtil Serpent with thy sting in thy tail and envie and hatred thou al false accusers of the innocent are the deluders and in the delusions and wretchednesse thou speaks of and now that we are cleared from thy slanders and thou found the envier and hater and such in the nature the Apostle Johns words witnesseth for us and against such as you are that are in the envie and evil committing sin and so serving the Devil take notice of that and also read 1 John 3.15 and 1 John 3.8 10. It followes from Edmund Skips words that we a People whom he calls Quakers being servants of Christ and brethren not hating but loving our brethren that we are under no delusion nor guided by aspirit of Antichrist c. But we whom he calls Quakers are servants of Christ and brethren and also do not hate but love our Brethren therefore according to that we a People whom Edmond Skip calls Quakers are not deluders nor under delusion c. take notice of that Friends and Christ who are of the Royall Seed and new Birth are set forth and manifested to be the Children and servants of God by their Love to him and one to another that are if the same spirituall Birth and in Vnion with him in the pure divine Light Life and Love Or Some Rules of Love whereby the Children of God are known to to love God and also to Live one another and also of Johns words to witnesse for the Truth Johns words witnesse for the Righteous seed such as are born again are of that seed and sons of God so brethren in Christ who lives in the divine light Life and Love and we may cry out with admiration that are of that Seed and in the divine Love and say with John and John with the righteous Seed who sald First Behold what manner of Love is this that the Father hath bestowed on us that we should be called the Sons of God therefore the World knoweth us not because it knew him not 1 John 3 1 2. Secondly And saith he ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins and we know the same and in him is no sin at all whosoever abideth in him sinneth not 1 John 3.5 6. Then Thirdly little Children let no man deceive you he that doth Righteousnesse is Righteous even as he is Righteous and whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed Remaineth in him so saith the holy Ghost and he cannot sin because he is born of God 1 John 3 7 and 9. Fourthly Therefore Marvell not my Brethren if the World hate you it is but what the Lord Jesus foretold of to his John 15.18 19 20 21. and we know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the Brethren 1 John 3.13 14. Fiftly Now my litle Children let us not love in Word neither in Tongue but indeed and in Truth and thereby we know that we are of the Truth and shall asure our Hearts before Him ● John 3. ver 18 19. Sixtly This is His Commandement that we should beleeve on the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another as he gave us commandment and he that keepeth his commandment dwelleth in him and he in him and hereby we know that he abideth in us by the Spirit which he hath given us 1 Joh. 3.23 24. 7. In this was manifested the love of God to us whom the world now reproacheth for his names sake c. because that God sent his onely begotten Son into the world that we might live through him and herein is love not that we first loved God but that he first loved us and sent his Son to teach us and guide us Joh. 8.12 and to be the propitiation for our sins who being children have them forgiven 1 Joh. 2 1● And now beloved if God so loved us it is our duty and we ought also to love one another for God is love and if with his love we love one another God dwelleth in us and his love is perfected in us 1 Joh. ● 9 10 11 12. 8. Hereby know we that we dwell in him because he hath given us of his spirit vers 13. 9. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us God is Love and he

not our thoughts the Lying Spirit hath told thee so by which thou art deceived and so taught to lie thy Tongue is deceitfull and so is thy heart and now the Spirit of Truth tells thee the same and also witnesseth against thee and thy deceipt And that distrustfull care we deny and know that Christ doth engage his people to leave it but there is a true care which Christ engageth the hearts of his people unto and that we own And the love of Christ teacheth us diligence and faithfulness also which engageth our Hearts and Souls unto him and to do justly love mercy and walk humbly with our God to serve him with Reverence and Godly fear and also to serve our generation in Love by being faithful unto the Lord our Redeemed passing the time of our sojourning here in fear and true care therefore thou open Lyer lay thy hand upon thy m●d●● and ●●ish be ashamed for ever that thou should be to befooled by the Devil as thou art to be his slander-Carryer and sow his seed of distention lies slanders and evil 〈◊〉 and so Labours to harrow it into the fear of enmity and grounds of Prejudice And that saying where thou says Thou hast read 〈◊〉 what an insolent proud Authentick manner the Devil spoke to Christ c. Reply That shall stand for thy self who are the Devils-slander-carrier and Satans Proclaimer and Publisher of lies slanders and deceiptfull wicked evill and filthy aspersions in such a 〈…〉 insolent Authentick manner against the Truth of Christ and his Brethren and friends so against him in them and Reviles the servants of the living God is thy Fore-fathers did Revile our b●est●d Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ but were joyce in this that we are counted worthy to so suffer for his Names sake Math. 5.10.11.12 and with all knowing this that the servant is not greater then his Lord as he himself hath said therefore we bear it in Remembrance dwelling in his word John 4.1 〈◊〉 John 15.20 And where thou says we own visions and Revelations c Reply That we do not deny if we should we should deny the Spirit of Truth and the Condition of the holy men of God Act. 9.10 11 12. and Act. 10.17 and we also know this that there is no true knowledg of God but by Revelation as Christ himself hath said Who spoke Truth and could not 〈◊〉 and he is also to be beleeved and obeyed who is the way to the Father and the Scriptures bears testimony from his own mouth to the ●●●e undeniable and grounded Truth as may be read Matth. 11.27 Luk. 10.22 And where thou sayes so making themselves eithe Prophets or Apostles c The Lord maketh both true Prophets and true Apostles Reply Self we deny and all the Power of darknesse so in that thou hast told another Lie and of our selves we are not able to think any thing as our selves but our sufficiency is of God who maketh both Prophets and and Apostles and so able Ministers of of the New Testament or Covenant not of the Letter but the Spirit for the Letter killeth but the Spirit giveth life this the Scriptures witnesseth and we witnesse with them 1 Sam. 3.19 20 21. 2 Pet. 1.21 Eph. 4.4.11 12 13. Rom. 12.6 7 Acts. 13. 1 Pet. 4.10 2 Cor. 3.5 6. Gal. 1.11 12. And where thou says Let this be also wel observed these dreamers say not withstanding they pretend it is God by some speciall Revelation or Inspiration be what it wil the Lord must be the Author of it pag. 34. Reply Thy fallacy we deny and therein thou hast uttered another Lie be ashamed and blush and for the Dreamers they shall stand for thy self and such in thy nature and deceablenesse of unrighteous who defile the flesh and despiseth the Spirituall dominion and Government which we witnesse unto by which Spirituall Poner the flesh with the affections and lusts are crucified Gal. 5.24 and with the Spirit and Power of our God are we sanctified washed cleansed and justified 1 Corimb 6.11 therefore we are no Dreamers For we witnesse the Spirituall dominion and Government by which we are preserved in our sanctification by Christ Jesus as such was in theirs that spoak against the dreamers Jude 1.2 and Revelation and Inspiration and the Lords sending according to the good pleasure of his will and the working of his divine power we own but thy pretence and fallacy or sting in thy call where thou says Be it what it will be God must be charged with it that we utterly deny and so testify against this abominable lye and ●●●n it back upon thee and the dreamers there remain Observe it well And where thou says Did you ever know a People acted through a more glorious shew or pretence of Righteousness then they are c. Reply Thy shews and pretences is by us denied but to obey Christ in all his discoveries and divine Appearances working unto Righteousnesse and changing from glory to Glory into the pure Image by the power of the Lords Eternall Spirit 2. Cor. 3.17 18. as such afore-time did that we we with the Scriptures do also witnesse and own and as Christ hath said to his Father in the eternall love to his in the glorious appearance and discovery unto such as were changed and changing into the Glory where he saith all mine are thine and thine are mine and I am glorified in them John 17.10 and the sufferings is not worthy to compared to the Glory revealed within Rom. 8.18 and God who commanded the Light to shine out of darknesse hath shined in our hearts through his glorious discovery and divine appearances of Glory and Righteousness to give us the knowledge of his Glory saith the Ministers of Christ and even in the face of Jesus Christ this treasure have we in eathren vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us 2 Cor. 4.5 6 7 and the Saints fellowship with Christ in the Glory is to be admired as the Apostle saith to the Thessalonians which glorie appears in the inwards 2 Thessal 1.10 this the Scriptures witnesse and in the fulfilling and changing into glory of Righteousnesse we also witnesse according to the measure and manifestation of his divine appearance fellowship with him in the pure enjoyment of Light Life and Love received from him who is the Lord our Righteousnesse and so made unto us Wisdom and Righteousnesse 2 Cor. 1.30 and with him and the Spirituall operation we witnesse according to his divine Appearance both in Glory and Righteousness as the Scriptures also witnesseth which we do own and with them also witnesse and of Christ according to his pure discoveries of his love according to His glorious Appearance which we do own but thy fallacies and guilded pretences we do deny and thee and thy pernicious wayes disown And where thou say Their throwing off and denying the World and all care and pains thereof for Christs sake

swift witness against all deceitful workers who live within the power of what they speak or write much more against those that write filthy abhominable lies Oh if thou love either Christ or thy own soul return return unto the light of Christ in thy own conscience which will let thee see the deceit of thy own sinful heart out of the abundant deceit thereof thy pen hath run so largely in confusion now I charge thee in the presence of the living God in as much love to thy soul as ever that thou return to the light of Christ in thy own conscience and mind that which checks thee in secret I tell thee man in love there is something yet in thee which will witness me to be true See one more page 64. where for thy own defence not for the defence of the truth thou sai●● thou wast necessitated to fly unto the practices and truths of other men to wit Baptists where it is plain thou had not the spirit of Christ to fly unto and speak from as the true Apostles had witness one Acts 6.10 therefore thou art both seen in the light proved by Scripture and thy own Writings to be a false Apostle and a false Minister 3 Cor. 11.13 14 15. much more might be said and proved both from thy writing and actings but I desire the good of thy soul by this which is sufficient at present to prove thee at present to be one of the wondering Startes Iude 13. A word to all Professors in the world BEing it was ordered of my Lord God and Father of lights that something must go forth in print as from me who am the least of all Saints I was even as freely engaged in my spirit out of tender love to your souls to present a few lines from that measure of spirit which is brought forth in me Oh my friends my friends the hour is not only comming but now is witnessed in me that the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and they that hear shall live Iohn 5.25 and the voice of the true Dove is heard in our Land to wit this earthly Tabernacle that is made the Temple of the living God who is now fulfilling his promises in us that walk not after the flesh but after the spirit even in us is the Lord establishing his new and everlasting Covenant even the sure and certain mercies of David which is by the life of Iesus Christ in us fulfilled and witnessed whereby we have fellowship with the Father and one in measure brought to live in him and he in us where we have joy and rest and eternal peace which passeth all understanding and all the worlds comprehension where all the Children of the light meet and see face to face for the Lord hath brought again Sion who is become the perfection of beauty out of the which God now shineth Psal 50.2 and is become our glory and we his Isa 46.13 Oh prayses prayses be unto him who hath redeemed us out of Nations kindreds and tongues to serve the living God in newness of life and not in oldness of Letter that so now we may offer up eternally living and eternal sacrifice and prayse for evermore who hath in measure redeemed us from the world and out of all darkness that is therein and hath translated us into the Kingdom of his dear Son and made us partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light which is the eternal light of life for God is light and in him is no darkness at all and all those that live in him are Children of the day who walked in the day even the pure light in the which there is no occasion of stumbling our feet being guided in the path of peace which is the true and living way in which the wafaring man though a fool shall not erre Isa 35.8 which is a pure way of holiness leading up into the full enjoyment of the Father who hath long waited to be gracious unto us and now in the day of his love and power hath gathered us in his arms of love and brought us home unto himself who were before the out-casts of Israel wondering with you from Mountain to Hill but did not finde rest unto our souls but now the great and mighty power of the Lord hath raised up his own seed in us now indeed we are made by the life of the Sonne in us to cry Hallelujah unto him to him alone be all honour glory and obedience and eternal prayses forever even for ever and ever for he that was lost is found he that was dead is alive and behold he liveth for ever more Now my friends the whole world lieth in wickedness and all the world by wisdom knowes not God the natural man perceiveth not the things of God which are hid from the wi●e and prudent even from the readers of the Scripture from Scribes Pharisees Priests yea the Princes of this world for had they known they would not have crucified the Lord of glory who is crucified daily by the same spirit that now ruleth in the Children of disobedience even in the Scribes Priests and people that live in the same Nation where the learned ones of the world are 〈◊〉 all those that walk in darkness to wit pride to covetousness 〈◊〉 love of the world hatred variance strife sedition heresie ba●● biting heady high-minded lovers of pleasures more then the over of God scoffers walking after their own ungodly lusts raging waves of the Sea foaming out their own shame who accounts gain godliness whose eyes are full of adultery feet swift to shed blood eares open to all deceit whose mouthes are full of cursing and bitterness the poyson of Aspes are under their lips their throats an open Sepulcher who imagineth mischief lying altogether deceitful and desperately wicked who can know it such as these are the fruits of the flesh in the which all the world lies therefore I witness against the world that the works thereof are evil Now in the world there are Sects Schismes Judgements and Opinions there they are heaping up teachers to themselves having itching eares and according to the number of their fansies so are their wayes of worship according to the number of their imaginations so are their Gods for there are many Gods and many Lords but the living God is not known by the world for it by wisdom knowes not God no man knoweth the Father but the Son and he to whom the Son revealeth him now he that hath the Son revealed in him is born of God and he that is born of God overcometh the world and sinneth not he that sinneth hath not seen him but this is a hard saying who can bear it the world cannot for the world hears its own they that are of God heareth Gods word ye hear them not therefore ye are not of God Now friends all you that have looked after me and other men for teaching now I can write unto you