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A34987	A backslider reproved and his folly made manifest and his confusions and contradictions discovered in a short reply to a book lately published by Robert Cobbet called A word to the upright, who being turned from the light now makes it his work to war against it and them that walk in it; but his weapons are broken and in his own snare is he taken / written for the Truths sake by a servant thereof known by the name Stephen Crisp ; unto which is added a brief answer to a pamphelet [sic] stiled A brief discovery of the labourers in mystery Babylon.	Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.; Atkinson, Elizabeth. Breif and plain discovery of the labourers in mistery, Babilon, generally called by the name of Quakers.; Travers, Anne. Harlots vail rent and her impudency rebuked.; Coleman, Elisabeth. Harlots vail rent and her impudency rebuked.	1669 (1669)	Wing C6925; ESTC R29284	17,630	26

God Psal 46.4 And surely seeing the Light gives the knowledge of our duty shews sin and evil if the Light be obeyed or truly improved it will lead out of evil and guide man in his duty to God so preserve him from the punishment And by this Light we were first called and are in it and need not thy Exhortation who art a treacherous Backslider from it P. 5 6 7. And if hearkning diligently to the Voice of Christ be the the condition joyned to the Covenant and that the Law is manifesst within and we must wait upon him that has called us with earnest prayers c. and that experience is to be had in the Mystery and Life and Salvation not in the Scripture and that the Creature is to retire it self in stillness and not to take part with the Enemy c. as thou hast largely confest What must we wait in hearken in receive Life and Salvation in or experience the Mystery And to what must we retire And by what shall we know the Voice of Christ and pray if not in and by his Light within For thou hast confessed that the spirit of the Wicked one worketh in the Children of Disobedience to do evil so the Spirit of Christ doth work in the Believer to do well which is Trurh but against thy self As also those that have been faithful to their Captain though never so little were committed to their trust shall enter into the possession And p. 8. thou tells us of some that were deceived by not keeping humble and low to follow the Lord and how hard it will be for these to be renewed except they hearken to the Voice of the Lord behind them and O that we may never forget to wait upon the Fountain of Wisdom c. Thou art one of those that art exalted thou hast not kept in humility thou hast not followed the Lord thou hast grown wanton and kick'd against his Light within thou hast not waited for his Counsel as thou oughtest but hast lusted after evil till leanness is entred into thy Soul till gross darkness is come over thee and confusion is thy snare thou hast made lies and falsehood thy refuge like an impudent immodest hard-hearted Woman Who did help thee to compose and word thy lying Pamphlet We hear Ro. Co. commends it Was he thy Patron An angry dark conceited man who glories in his folly and yet thinks he is wise though he is as full of nonsence and confusion as thou art but his and thy clamorous lying Tongues God will cut off and stop your Mouths In p. 4. thou tellst us That the Disciples whom Christ called Brethren did not call themselves the Seed This is thy blindness for were not the Children of the Kingdom called the good Seed and the Children of the Promise counted for the Seed Were they not of one holy Seed and off-spring seeing he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one And were not they a Royal Seed a holy Priesthood And who were the Remnant of the Seed of the Woman that kept the Commands of God And it is remarkable that though thou hast often belied us yet in p. 1. hast confessed That we the people called Quakers of a truth God hath called us out of the broad way of wickedness and many Jewels were we adorned with So then we were a people called and adorned of the Lord and not with the Jewels of the Egyptians which falsly thou hast instanced in the Case Besides we are in the same Way Truth and Principles which God at first called us into though such perfidious Backsliders and Apostates as thou thy self and some others are have abused the Truth rejected his Call and cast his Law behind your backs to your own condemnation and destruction if you do not return and repent Here follows a Collection of some of thy Lyes and Slanders in thy Book against the Chosen people of God called Quakers which are rejected and returned back upon thee Lye 1. That they are Labourers in Mystery Babylon 2. That the subtile Serpent deceived them and made them become proud Boasters 3. That they call the Tower of Babel Mount Zion 4. That they are building it in their Imaginations 5. That he hath confounded their Language 6. That they call good evil and evil good saying It was the Enemy when it was the Lord. 7. That they conclude themselves to be saved by their works 8. That they subtilly perswade you to rest under a Covenant of works VVhich are gross slanders for it 's Christ who is our Saviour It is God that works all our works in us and good works as the fruits of the Spirit and true Faith God hath ordained 9. That they are turned Deceivers and Adulterers 10. That they content themselves with the works of their own imaginations 11. That they trust in their own Righteousness as the Pharisees c. 12. That pride of imagined Knowledge hath puft them up 13. That they being deceived labour to deceive others 14. That they say they see and desire to know no more A palpable slander against Quakers 15. That thou knowest many of them to be grievous Hypocrites 16. That they slight the Scriptures 17. That they are full of all subtilties far from the real Innocency 18. That they are strong Builders in Mystery Babylon 19. That they to shelter themselves many times bring Scripture in a confused manner onely to maintain imaginations 20. That when they are confuted by plain Scripture they will put it off by Evasions These with several more Lyes in thy Pamphlet intended against the Quakers we return back upon thee E.A. as one that hast impudently slandered Gods people called Quakers And though thou art back-slidden and turned into lyes and lightness yet thou art fain to make use of many words and expressions thou hast learned amongst the Quakers to make thy false Coin go the more currant But the Lord hath made thee and that Reviler Ro. Co. sufficiently manifest and your wickedness will sink you down into the pit if you do not return to the Light within which you have abused and repent Thou tellest If the Lord shall call thee out of this Tabernacle of Clay That will be a sad day if thou goest on in this wickedness and impudency a sad end and terrible death will seiz upon thee if thou doest not repent in time VVhen thou art on thy Death-Bed remember thou wert warned in thy Life-time Thy vain light mind and spirit which hath brought forth Lyes against the Innocent will not be able to contend with the mighty God in that day wherein he will judge the Secrets of thee and all other Transgressors and Revolters according to the Gospel and that Light within which thou hast so much slighted and opposed Thou upbraidest some with a Common Belief of being saved by the Merits of Jesus Christ as not having Faith when we see not the Fruits of it brought forth p. 5. But what fruits hast thou brought forth and what are those Saints thou speakest of being Companions with p. 6 VVhat Saints can own thee in thy Lyes and Slanders VVhere are the Fruits of thy Faith that hast thus reviled an innocent People in general making some particular disobedient persons thy Cloak in what thou hast done But this Covering will be too narrow for thee and all such Back-●●iders who hast been forced to confess to the Principle of Truth amongst us after thou hast essayed to declare against it VVhereas thy chiefest colour is the back-sliding or transgression of some disobedient persons like thy self And not any Truth or Reason that thou canst produce against our Principles We are Witnesses to the Truth against Deceit and Impudency ANNE TRAVERS ELIZ. COLEMAN THE END

that the light is a sparkling glimpse in the soul doth convince the soul of what is done amiss which discerned by the soul serves for a Director to the soul to Christ where only lies its help which Spirit or Light in man is the Candle of the Lord which searcheth the innermost parts of the belly and comes down with every man by generation from Adam Pag. 10. The Light in Conscience being a property in man as man is a creature its office in the soul is not appointed to give Salvation   P. 21. Christ as he is the Word and Maker of all things is not the Light in Conscience   P. 21. The Word being goodness its self sends forth his Love to wit his Life which shed in the heart is to it a light and this he calls his Spirit which light is not Christ though of his nature P. 11. The light serves but to condemn for unbelief or to justifie the creature in his obedience of faith P. 5. The spirit of man being of the principle of light is a creatural spirit from the principle of light as a spark of that nature which having lost its life by the transgression of the man to God is dead P. 21. But the Word which was God by which all things were made in him was Life and that Life was the Light of men and he it is that lighteth every man that cometh into the world P. 11. If the light in Conscience be Christ then may Christ be darkness P. 4. Did not this Light in thy Conscience condemn thee of all that ever thou didst before the day of God brake forth   Concerning Christ his Body Soul and Blood and what he is and is not as R. C. saith Page 3. HE is the everlasting Word but as he was the Man Christ he was in time Page 5. AND the Soul of Christ that was of and from the soul-like properties of man's nature as Christ consists personally from his Mother Mary P. 6. Which body of our Lord being of a heavenly substance as it was circumscribed was the body of his personality that he gave for an Offering for the ransome of the World which body being of the nature of heaven Thus have I given you an account of Jesus his Body Soul and Spirit who as he thus consisted was that form of God and express image of his Fathers substance P. 6. Behold I shew you a Mystery ye men in the clouds Christ being the Product of the Holy Ghost to a coagulated substance from the property of man in Mary   P. 8. Who while there stood differed nothing from the form of a Servant   P. 12. Which Body was Christ. P. 7. We have proved before the personality of Christ and that he was the express Image of God in his Person P. 17. He came of Abraham's lineage of the loins of Mary begotten by the Holy Ghost of his Mother Mary for the Saviour P. 16. The Seed is Christ to whom the Covenant was made by God as written My Covenant shall be with thee and with thy seed c. He is Lord and Saviour P. 18. That the Seed which is the Saviour is Christ in Person for if he had not been Creature of Soul and Spirit as I am as I am Nature it had not availed me but the Seed that broke the Serpents head is not some strange thing that I am not as I am creature but of kind and substance as I am he being made so from the nature of Mary by which she became creature as the Off-spring of Adam of Soul and Spirit consisting as do I. P. 17. They have believed that I came down from thee P. 18. Being out of doubt that the Soul of Christ was of and from the properties of nature and creature made by generation of the properties of Mary is that Seed that God promised to send to break the Serpents head P. 19. This Christ being born of Mary proceeded from David and Abraham according to the Line of the Covenant Christ coming from Mary and God forming himself in and with that Body Christ for its Saviour to Man was the Power to Christ by which Christ brought forth man's Salvation but could he or did he without the Body of Christ reconcile P. 19. Is it not the Body of Christ by which we are reconciled unto God yes verily P. 11. My Brethren you are bought with a Price not of blood of Bulls and Goats nor Heifers of a year old but by the Blood of God P. 13. Which Blood being the Blood of his Humanity as he was Creature was that that did with God expiate for sin THE END THE HARLOTS VAIL Rent AND Her Impudency rebuked In a short ANSWER to one Elizabeth Atkinson her Babylons Brat against the People called Quakers Friend Eliz. Atkinson WE have taken some notice of thy abusive slanderous Pamphlet against the Quakers whom thou hast confessed to have walked nine years amongst And is this the fruit of thy nine years Travel A pack of Lies Feignedness and Deceit which discovers more Impudency than Modesty or Sobriety on thy part as also apparent Nonsence and Contradictions to thy self as will briefly appear in what follows though blasphemously and impudently thou fatherest thy Work upon the constraint of the Love of God But thou hast been led by a lying spirit to blaspheme against the Truth nine years professed by thee and yet thou art fain to make use of many words and phrases thou hast learned amongst the Quakers though to a wicked end and to thy own confusion Thou now pretendest to declare against our Principles and Practice but what thou sayest as to our Principles reacheth very few of them but the Light within chiefly thou in thy darkness smitest against though to the discovery of thine own folly and contradiction as will appear And as to practice thou sayest Those that for a time practised Honesty in their Callings are now turned Deceivers and those that formerly were content with their own Wives are now turned Adulterers lusting after other mens c. We answer Both these Accusations are general and do reflect upon all of us that have practised Honesty who are now accused with Dishonesty and Adultery wherein thou hast appeared both impudent and wicked thus to bring forth a general charge to asperse a whole Body whose Principle is against all such Abominations and against all unrighteousness and herein our Principle is justified as that which led to practise Honesty and to live in Chastity and Faithfulness to our own Relations and now however any have apostatized from or abused this Principle of Truth and Righteousness amongst us their falling is not chargeable upon the Principle for the Truth stands intire still and the offenders must bear their own burthens Our righteous Principle is not to be accused either because Eliz. Atkinson or R. Cobbet or others have turned their backs of it after so many years being amongst us If any should revile the