more innocent and harmless then yours for there was a place of repentance found for him and an exhortation unto it verse 22. Truly I cannot say so of you I desire I could The Scripture maketh mention of one Elymas a sorcerer being by interpretation so called Acts 13.8 And with him you run paralel for the Deputy having received the faith of Jesus he with stood the Apostles and sought to turn him away from it but he was struck with blindness which was his reward and you do as your Brother did for if any especially Rulers or men in Authority do come to own the truth as it is manifest in them by the Light of Jesus Oh what stirring and striving by reviling and reproching by shifts and lyes do you make to smother and stifle it and what calumnies aspersions and slanders do you cast upon the Ministers there of calling of them Seducers Deceivers Heathens and Jesuites with many other filthy names to turn the minds of any who have received it from it again and not so contented but calls the Light within damnable Heresie damnable Blasphemy a Doctrine of Devils Popery and so forth now is not this Elymas like or worse for it may be he might not cast so many slanders upon the Apostles and the faith as you do upon them now who Minister in the faith but Elymas withstood the Apostles to turn the Deputie from the faith who knoweth but Elymas might have a great part of his gain from that Deputie it is very probable that before he received the faith of Jesus at the Apostles preaching he might believe Elymas his sorcery and so truly Elymas might receive much pay for it of him for Sorcerers and deviners such as Elymas and you are gives not your comodities Gratis But are payd for them to purpose as Thousands of my Friends in England and other parts can witness though they receive none of your sorcery yet you take by violence their goods and money from them like Theeves and pretends a Law for it Truely in this you outstrip all your Brother-hood mentioned in Scriptures both in old and new Testament as ever I read of I have read of some who took the wages of unrighteousness But I know not whether by force or nay as you do I never read of any that took treeble damage as you do and yet wo was pronounced against such who took such wages and if wo were their portion what will be yours who exceeds them in all their wickedness and abominations surely surely Hell hath enlarged her lips wide for you and it was high time for Elymas to withstand the Apostles and the Faith being the Deputy had received it and stand up for his God which had received such a knock as could not be recovered but by turning the Deputy who had received the Faith from it again What a condition was Elimas in his socery would not serve for the Truth was received therefore his God must famish And truly so it is with you for if any comes to receive the Truth then comes your sorcery and deceit to be made manifest and though formerly it hath been accounted good ware whilst no better was known But now that is a risen in people in this Nation which hath laid open all your deceits and false cheats and rips up all your deceitful coverings and hath turned your inside outward I speak not this only of you who are now the Merchants of the time but I speak of all and of all orders whatsoever called or known by out of the Life of Truth which the Lord God hath manifested by his Light You are all utterly to be denied in the sight of God for ever and as to most of your brethren which you have supplanted and turned out of their Markets and Shops a while since they pleaded more right to them then you now you plead more right to them then they and so one brother supplanting another You need not deal so cruelly with them as many say you do they are your brothers for you have all one Mother and hath sucked all one breast and so you are all of one nature and they are as ready in the work of persecution and as active as you can be Therefore according to the equity of that they might joyn with you in your trading as some already hath done for they are very diligent and handâ—e and if they may not be allowed to be shop-keepers let them be shop-sweepers for rather then sit our they will do any thing I know they are stiffe and proud but they must acknowledge you to be their Eldest brother and your Father doth so compute you But know this assuredly you are brethren in iniquitie and your whole lives practices and professions being condemned by the Spirit of God and the Apostles and Scriptures stands in a lie and so to be denied of all that fear the Lord You are even discovered and known to be as you are viz. Antichrists Deceivers Socerers and ravening Wolves and you rage and your fury is kindled and casts out whole floods of slanders and reproaches after the Truth because your God which is your belly is in danger to be starved and famished for you know not neither will you know any way of preparing your sacrifices for your God but that cursed way that is by extracting of them from the drops of sweat that runs from other mens faces for you abominate and abhor labour and the Scriptures which saith In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat thy bread and he that will not work shall not eat you seldom or never make use of and so you may offer fat Sacrifices unto your God which is your belly obtaining them at those rates but know assuredly as you have taken and wrung the drops of sweat from the faces of such as have had no dealings with you especially the Lord God hath put them with their Tears also up into a bottle which he keeps for a perpetual memorial of their Innocent sufferings your cruelty and tyranny injustice therefore Flames Flames Flames of fire is prepared by the Lord to consume you as dry stubble In the Light of the eternal God I have beheld you and all your actions and take them all together and Rake the pit of confusion and bind up your stuff in a bundle and indeed there is no paralel nor never was that ever I could read of or hear amongst any Ministers Christian or Antichristian or amongst sober Trades-men or Artists whatsoever but you out-strip all of them in your way of wickedness if I should paralel you with Salvage Beasts I could not truely do it I think be they never so fierce for they stand in kind Beasts of prey answereth the end of their Creation and so doth all other Creatures of the Salvage kind but men of prey such as you are is quit out of kind and not to be paraleld by any thing that draweth breath Oh what shall I
what will become of you You will desire strongly to set with it also but you shall not For there is a cup prepared for you being mixed with Plagues Woes Miseries Sorrows Torments and Eternal burnings which you shall not passe for you are found from the Lord God worthy and a treble portion is to be given unto you And so much for your unparaleld fraud of your Soul Cure which you impudently force the sale of upon people whether they will or nay for which there is no example to be found amongst all Christian Ministers mentioned in Scriptures neither amongst sober Tradsmen We have somewhat to say as to your entering into that Trade or Function which you call Soul Cure How came you thither Prove your call according to the Scripture which you say is your Rule and see with whom you run Paralel The Apostles were made Ministers by the will of God and not by the will of man You are made Ministers by the will of man and not by the will of God therefore you run not paralel with them who were Ministers of Christ And as to your Names Orders Gestures and Inventions being no example is found amongst the Ministers of Christ they are all out of the Life and Truth for Judgement You assume to your selves names of Bishops Deacons c. There is such names mentioned in Scripture but what is that to you are you ever the more to be reverenced because of these names Nay except you were found in the Life of those the Scriptures speaks of You are never the better for the 〈◊〉 but much the worse except you be found in the Life of Bishops and Deacons spoken of Timothy 3.2 3 4 5. c. I own the name Bishop and likewise Deacon if they be as is there spoken of viz. Vnreproveable the husband of one Wife Watching Sober Modest given to Hospitality apt to Teach not given to Wine no Stricker not given to filthy Lucre but Gentle no fighter not Coveteous Let me ask of you are you so in all or any of these things Let that which is just of God in all your Consciences Judge and Answer if you be not blame us not for denying of you for we cannot own any to be a Bishop or Deacon over us except the name and Life go together These Bishops and Deacons mentioned in Scripture had not only the names but they had the Life from which the name proceeds You have the name and want the Life and so stands in a Lye And when we come to compare you with those that were in the Life of Righteousnesse which is so in deed and not in name you are found utterly false and to be denyed of all that fear the Lord. You have many old Names whereby you distinguish your Orders and Places which the Scriptures of Truth neither knows nor owns as Deans Arch-deacons Prebends Countrey Deanes Bishops called Suffragans and several other Whence had you or who gave you those Names Came not these from Rome I am sure the Ministers of Christ left them not upon record in Scripture so you cannot flie thither for shelter and refuge neither can you cover your selves with their words for the Light of Christ Jesus which is the Life is arisen which doeth divide betwixt the Words and the Life and hath ript up the false coverings and so you stand quite naked and wo is to him that is covered and not with the Spirit of the Lord. You likewise rage if any call you Priest and swell and take that to be ignominious but know Priest was a good Name in its time such as were once ordained of God But seeing you are angry at that we grudge not the name of Minister unto you for the prodigal Son was once a Minister yea and an Hireling too as some Translators renders it read Luke 15.15 as you are Read what he Ministred and to whom but the Lord received him again after true Repentance and then he left off serving of husks And where is your example in Scripture among the Ministers of Christ For your running to the powers of Earth and crying unto them for help to setle you in your livings and to get your false maintenance called Tythes With whom run you paralel Can you answer and seeing Christs Ministers did not so you must needs be Antichrists For there are but two sorts of Ministers as I have said And where as you have said and say you are Christ Ministers and upon true search it appeareth no such thing neither by your rule nor example Yet you run paralel with some mentioned in Scripture though not Christians and because you rank your selves amongst such as were Christian Ministers we will not go about to find out your paralel in the Old Testament Though we might mention the orders of Priests there for Aarons Order you have nothing to do with for it was appointed of the Lord Now there were other Orders of the Priests besides Aarons as Baals Priests Priests of the Grove and Jezebels Chaplins which drew the same brests as you do But because you say you are Christian Ministers we shall say little more to them But to those which Christ and his Ministers cried wo against for they were in the same life you were in The Scriptures of Truth make mention of such as loved greetings in the Markets and the uppermost Roomes at Feasts and in the Synagogues and Assemblies and loved to be called of men Master And do you not these things Is it not so that you love greetings in the Markets and the uppermost Rooms in your Synagogues and Assemblies and at Feasts especially and you dearly love to be called of men Master I will give you an instance of one of your Brethren of the confused Function though not of your Order as he accounted himself I met with him in the street and he had some words with me and I did call him by his Name being known to me very wel for he had often wrot his name as I called him but the proud devil got up in him which would be called Master which was a name not for me to call him except I had been his servant and truly he denyed his name and said his name was Master such a one before such a Generation as I was got up I asked him how he came by the name Master for I told him I had assuredly seen him write his name otherwise He told me he had served for it at the Vniversity and would be so called And I told him that he that went by two names was reckoned a cheat Now you that loves to be called Master do not call this man a fool in this though truly he was so except you your selves be clear of his folly least another may call you all fooles for you as dearly love to be called so as he I am sure though I never saw any man of that Coat manifest his folly so much but as to his art he
had as much to say in it as most of you all whatsoever we are comanded to call no man Master for One is our Master even One that you know not for if you did you would dread and fear him and we do ordinarily call men by those names as they call themselves in their writings if it be truth and if you run not paralel with the above mentioned in Scripture being found in the same life and practice let that which is Just of God in you Judge for I have laid you to your direct line Read Mat. 23. the chapter through And the Scriptures of truth maketh mention of such as were Blind guids and that if the blind lead the blind they shall both fall into the Ditch now perhaps you will say you run not paralel with the blind guides there spoken of but I shall make it appear know you wherefore they were called blind they had eyes as well as you and yet they were so because they could not see him who was come in the figure or flesh to fulfill and put an end to all that they did profess and practice in their worship and Religion according to the Cerimonies of the Law and because they had been worshipping in the types shaddows and cerimonies which held forth Christ till he came in the figure or flesh and when he was come and all these things in him fulfilled and ended yet these that took upon them to be Teachers Instructors guides of the people could not see him but continued still in those things which in him was fulfilled and ended now were not these blind guides justly so called and were not they that were led by them blind also answer me and did not the blind lead the blind and was not the Pit the end of their journey and did not these blind guides seduce people from the Doctrine and faith of Christ which said which of the Rulers have believed on him was not this blind seducing but perhaps you will say we cannot paralel with them for we are Christian Ministers we believe he is come and hath fulfilled what is here mentioned but I deny you are either Christs Ministers or yet believers for if you were his Ministers you would feed his flock and not destroy them not Lord it over them as you do if you believed in him you would do his works but doing neither you are neither Christian Ministers nor believers The Scripture of truth maketh mention of seducers Johns Epistle 1 2.26 27. These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you but the anointing of the Father which ye have received of him abideth in you and ye need not that any man teach you but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lye and even as it hath taught ye you shall abide in him now you that are Ministers of Confusion I aske you is this Scripture true or is it false if it be true as I think you dare not be so impudent as say the contrary then your ministry is at an end and utterly to be denyed of all that have received the anointing for they have received that which is truth and no lye you deny the Light of Christ within which is the anointing of the Father therefore your preaching is a lye seducing and Antichrist and utterly to be denyed for as the blind guides saw not Christ when he came in the flesh to end and fulfill all their worships which stood in the Cerimonies of the Law so you blind guides in this generation see not Christ come in spirit to lead and guide and instruct his people by the pure measure of his light manifested in this age generation and all that hath received this they have no need of your teaching and therefore let all flesh be silent before the Lord. And as the blind guides did of old so do you now for they persecuted Christ in the flesh and you persecute him in spirit where ever he appears either in Male or Famale and the blind guides would go on in their way that was in their Temple worship and observing dayes and offering Sacrifices though their house were left unto them desolate and so do you go on in your way though the witness of God rise in you to condemne you for so doing yet I put a vast difference between the Jews worship and yours for it was true as it was once comanded of God and it was a type of Christs coming in the flesh but yours was never comanded of God therefore a lye but invented of them that were enemies to the appearance of Christ every way and I desire to know of you one thing that is what your worship is a type of being you are enemies to the coming of Christ in spirit and cannot indure him where ever he appears and what it is that must fulfill it but this is a Doctrine you cannot endure to hear of it is as the pangs of Death to you what to speak of having your Doctrine to come to an end how will those sayings be fulfilled then 〈◊〉 allwaies learning never able to come to the knowledge of the truth For this will please you better that you may be ever teaching though betwixt the Womb and the Tomb people be never the better but much the worse and them that hangs on your Doctrine to the end they are undone for ever Now Read your selves paralel with the blind guids And as to all your trinketts and inventions not worth nameing and even as it were numberless hath God chosen or required this at your hands to be his worship if he have then without doubt he hath chosen you to be Ministers of it but I am sure he hath neither chosen this for his worship neither you for his Ministers for this is the worship God hath chosen even spirit and not art and invention and so likewise his Ministers that he hath chosen are poor weak dispised Ones which is to the confounding of you and your Doctrine The Scripture maketh mention of one Simon which used sorcery and witch-crafts read Acts 8 9. In some things you paralel him for he used sorcery and bewitched people But he believed and continued a season and he profferd money for the gift of the Holy spirit that he might do as the Apostles did but he was cursed with his money because he would purchas the gift of God with it which is not to be done now had it been possible that the gift of God could have been bought with money however Simon had bought the truth and it is no doubt but he would have made sale of it again he would have sold the truth though his end was cursed because it was for gain now you are found not to be of Simons mind for you are far from buying the truth for you buy lyes sell them again and hath them and sells them again many times over now Simons Condition was
say of you I have seen you I have seen you in the eternal and you are the poorest Creatures that hath Communion with the Common ayre every Creature answereth the end of his Creation but man yet notwithstanding as man is in the simplicity found there is a remedy for him but for you the worst of men Oh full of all subtilty Children generated of the seed of deceit brought forth out of the womb of wickedness nourished up at the breasts of witch-craft rocked in the cradle of Idleness wo is me for you for the day which I see is comming upon you from the Lord and all them that you have made drunk by putting your bottle of Poyson to their noses who have drunk deep and so are become one in nature with you it had been better you had never been born It had been better for you that you had been strangled in your Mothers Wombs and still births had been presented to them then Living Children into their Armes Oh what shall I say concerning you Gods everlasting decree is Sealed against you burnings burnings burnings with unquenchable fire is your portion from the Lord God of Heaven and Earth whose pure spirit you have long grieved Oh how have you been warned admonished exhorted and reproved and in true love to your souls by the Servants of the Lord of the day which is even coming upon you and you have not taken warning of them but for their love you have rewarded them with whippings stocks and imprisonments and spoyl of goods and some loss of life whose blood is treasured up against the day of your account dreadfull will it be to you for there is no covering found for you neither refuge to fly unto it is the hand of the Lord that hath searched you out and there is no resisting of it Oh it is the hand of the Lord that is strong and mighty And Oh that men that are brought forth in time stands in time and ends in time should contend with eternity did ever the lesser comprehend the greater speak and answer if not then how dare you presume to frame and invent a worship to the eternal God and under the name of Gospel-worship and Christian Ministry is he worshipped in Temples made with hands or Stone-houses falsely by you called Churches or think you your Altars and turned Pillars called Railes your Organs your Singing-Men and Boyes with Surplices Tippits Scarffs Long Garments and Girdles with your invented prayer called Common with your preaching and the best of your sacrifices enters into the ears of the eternal God nay you are highly mistaken A pure God must have pure praise God praises God his praise and worship for ever and ever is from thee unto thee now if you cannot read this let your mouths for ever be stopped and cease your Invented Instruments for worship for an evil Savour doth your sacrifices send forth even a loathing to the Lord God of Heaven and Earth but the God which you Imagine let him be worshipped according to your Imaginations and inventions and think not to mock the Eternal God by your Devices I tell you again as I have said it is Spirit and not Art except you will dare to presume to make the Lord God any thing else but a Spirit if you do you are Blasphemers in the highest degree Oh I have seen eternity I have seen eternity and a dreadfull day is very near at hand to be revealed Oh the overflowing scourge Oh the Besome of destruction Oh the plague and vengeance that is to be powred upon the wicked in this Nation both Priest and People howl howl Hireling Priests of all Orders for the Wine-Press of the wrath of God Almighty is even near to be trod into which you are to be cast for the Lord God hath spoken it and he will not repent a trebble portion a trebble portion of the Plagues of God Almighty are you to have above all others Just Holy and True Art thou God eternal that hath thus judged and thy judgements are holy just and true Praises Praises from the immortal pure seed in all thine be given unto thee for ever and for ever What more shall I say of you Oh you miserable most wretched you have been the ring-leaders to blood-shed you have been the ring-leaders to persecution your hands are full of it You have been the men that hath spurred on the Magistrate to lay violent and cruel hands on the Innocent when many times they would not have done it and you have given them no rest till they have fulfilled and satisfied your bloody minds and very few of you but have changed with every change you have served every Power have been true to none Oh most deceitful you have in all these overtures and changes which hath been wrought in these Nations of late years Kept your heads above the water and have floated along with the streams when many who have gone hand in hand with you hath sunk in every change and especially this late Oh! what shall I say my bowels my bowels I bear a burden for you which I cannot utter Oh! your deceitful flatterie Oh! how have you blasphemed God and hath ascribed to man whose breath is in his Nostrils that which belongeth not unto him especially if he stands in his unregenerated estate Had and have you not cursed ends in this Answer Are or were they so as you bespeak and do bespeak them to be One thing I assuredly know that the Powers since and the Powers present never said so of themselves whatever they thought and think as you said and say And all for the sake of your God which is your Belly Did not many of you to the Powers gone ascribe names to them that they never knew nor witnessed the Life in the least of whom you spake And do you not now ascribe to the chief Power that which I am sure he calls not himself As the expresse Image of the Heavenly Father Witnesse your Surry addresse to him signed by so many Doctors of D. St. of D. See it in the publick Intelligence given forth the 16. of the 6. Month D. D. St D. L. L. D. as you call your selves Now was ever any called the expresse Image of the Heavenly Father but Christ Jesus And think you the chief Magistrate of these Nations doth not see your ends and your flatteries in this and many other things I am perswaded when ever his mind comes truly to be turned to that which is just of God in him He will see you to be even so as I have said the greatest Sycophants and Flaterers that lives in these Nations Wo wo wo unto you for you are of that Generation upon whom all the Righteous blood from Abel even to this day have been charged Oh! dreadful God must it be so that thy decree which thou hast sealed must come to passe and be fulfilled in this Generation And must these fill up the cup of their great Grand-fathers Bonner and Gardener c. By powring out the blood of thy dear purchased Lambs in this Generation If so Thy will Infinite God be done and Glorifie thy self in what thou hast decreed Eternal God for thou art right worthy to be Feared Praised Honoured and Glorified of all thy Children and dear Lambs for ever and for ever But certainly know this it must be your bloody Sacrifice which you will offer viz. The Lambs of Jesus That will sink you into the Pit of Eternal destruction for your next fall will be as the fall of a Milstone into the Sea Read that GOD ETERNAL hath spoken it and I faithfully believe it and most of you are the men must perform it and shall see it and feel it before you go away from hence and be no more seen And as for me an object of the living mercy of the Eternal God who as a brand pluckt out of the fire and as a Fowl that narrowly escapes the Fowlers net so I even I am brought out of your confusion and sorcery Praises praises be given to the Imortal God from thy pure seed in me and all for ever and for ever And by thy pure Power am I made to stand a witnesse against all false teachers both in England and the rest of the Nations whatsoever in my measure and by whatsoever names they are called and distinguished being all out of the Life and Truth And rage not against me because of my testimony here written for I have said you to your line stretched it over you and if you fall short let that rise in you that will shew you the cause And I have compared you with your example mentioned in Scripture viz. Christian Ministers And answering not them you have reason to be silent and stop your mouths and sit down contented to be ranked and paralel'd with them that lived the same life that you are found in For to compare you with such is truth and no slander and so I finish this my Testimony concerning you THE END Errours Page 4. line 7. for know read come Page 7. l. 16. for Ministers read Ministers of Christ l. 22. for as read up