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A85149	The Scriptures vindication against the Scotish contradictors. By one John Stalham, and as he saith, preacher of the Gospel at Edenborough in Scotland. And the other tiled [sic], A serious review of some principles of the Quakers; wherein error is discovered, and truth defended; by P.E. and written with a pen at Edenborough, printed in the year 1655, and a written name, as if it were the printer called Peter English, but no printed name; and thus they shuffle, but laid open to their shame, and truth in this short answer is defended and cleared, and their errour is discovered, and they ensnared. Who both have manifested their contradictions both to the Scriptures, and their own writings, and so have not the people which they call Quakers. / Published by a servant of the Lord Jesus, in Yorkeshire in England, known to the world by the name of Richard Farneworth.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1655 (1655)	Wing F503; Thomason E854_9; ESTC R202120	34,303	40

the wicked one knowes the father and are strong because they have overcome and are in union with him that giveth them victory and the word of God abideth in them that have so overcome 1 Joh 2.13 14. which thou art ignorant of and knowest not that pleads for sin and so for the Devill therefore his servant thou art expect his reward for doing his worke Concerning Repentance They Question that Implyeth a deniall of Repentance in such as make a trade of sinne take heed and looke to thy selfe that art so hardened in thy sins and pleads so strongly for them least thou be given over to hardnesse of heart and Repentance be hid from thee as from Esau it was for wee know that the goodnesse of God leadeth to repentance and the Scripture witnesseth the same with us therefore wee contradict it not but agree therewith and witnesse the gift from the Goodnesse Rom 2.4 But take heed that thou harden not thine heart and treasure up unto thy selfe wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous Judgement of God ver 5. And where thou sayes wee disclaime a Godly sorrow which thou calls remorse there thou hast uttered another lye but thou art accustomed to it and it is hard for thee to leave it Concerning Reading Singings and Prayer Baptisme and the Lords Suffer c. Thou would raise a slander and cast it upon us from some words which thou hast wrested in the Booke called the Standard of the Lord by C Athinson Pag 22. as if wee should deny the way and the meanes that God useth to reveale himselfe to his people by and through but that is but further to manifest thy lying and deceitful Spirit of errour and deceit for Christ is the Light to lead out of errour and deceit such as follow him into the Light of Life Joh 8.2 And he is the way to the Father and that wee owne and none can come to the Father without him and hee reveales his secrets by his Spirit even the deepe things of God 1 Cor 2.10 and no man knowes the father but the sonne and he to whosoever the sonne will reveale him And this doth not contradict the Scriptures but are witnessed by them Math 11.27 Luke 10.22 But the Scriptures are not Christ then they are not the Spirit that reveales the deepe things of God But God hath sent the Spirit of his sonne into our hearts whereby we cry Abba father Gal 4.6 and by his Spirit hee tcacheth us to profit 1 Cor 12.7 and to understand 1 Joh 5.20 and teacheth us how to read with an understanding and how to pray as wee ought Rom 8.26 1 Cor 14.15 and that doth not contradict the 2 Tim 3.15 nor Rom 10.17 nor Luke 11.13 nor James 1 6. for wee know that faith is Given by the ministry of Christ in the Spirit and that God giveth us his holy Spirit 1 John 3 24. and the wisdome which is pure peaceable Gentle and easie to be entreated James 3.17 and the fruite of righteousnesse is sowne in peace of them that make peace James 3.18 for which wee praise God and owne hearing reading and prayer and the teachings of God according to his promises Therefore thy slaunder and accusation harmeth us not But your braine Imaginations wee deny and sprinkling Infants with water which thou calls Sacramentall water but canst thou prove it yet the Baptisme by one Spirit we owne 1 Cor 12.12 13. into one body where there is one faith one Lord one Baptisme Ephes 4.4 5. and such as are baptized into Christ have put on Christ and that wee witnesse as doth the Scripture which is not Contradiction Gal 3.27 But sprinkling Infants is an Invention and none of Christs Institution But thou perverts the Scripture Act. 2.38 39. saying Be baptized every one of you you and your Children Here thou art a lyar It doth not Command Children to be baptized with water neither did they ever so baptize them that thou canst prove by one plaine Scripture and where thou sayes that one of them sayes The Lords Supper is a carnall Invention I charge thee in that to be a grosse lyar I said that your Imagination was a carnall Invention but the Lords Supper I owne and witnesse that he is come in to supp with mee Rev 3.20 And the bread which we breake it is the communion of the body of Christ and the Cup which we drinke it is the communion of the blood of Christ and as Paul said so say I Let those that are spirituall Judge what is said but thou canst not prove that Paul broke outward bread and drunke outward wine with the Corinthians nor the manner how and therefore it is thy reason that is so weake that saith The bread which you breake although it be bread in the nature and substance yet it is Spirit in the Institution c. What blasphemy is this to say that the Spirit is in the bread which is naturall in the substance here is a Papisticall tricke indeed and thy reason is very weak to carry thee out to utter thy shallownesse and emptinesse of the body and blood of Christ that would make that bread which is naturall in the substance as thou sayes the Spirit and Life of Christ and so substantiall in the Institution by yon deceivers oh Horrible delusion The Kingdome of God consists not in meate and drinke but righteousnesse peace Joy in the holy Ghost and in that kingdome wheat bread and red wine is not soules food but the pretious blood of Christ such as eate him they live on hum and dwells in him he is my meate and drinke and food for my soule to feed on and for such as are in him John 6. Who is the bread of Life And where thou sayest wee are against publique prayer these thon sayes are their very expresse words in Answer to Samuell Eaton P 26. contrary to the order 1 Cor 14 14. Here thou hast manifested thy deceitfull spirit and wronged the words in that Booke by turning them into a wrong sense by thy filthy minde to manifest thy mischeife against the Truth that is harboured in thy deceitfull heart for the words in that page thou hast cited is that wee are against a publique prayer which is in the state of the Pharisee which Christ forbids and that doth not contradict Scripture nor the counsell of Christ but agree therewith Math 6.5 but the praying with the Spirit we owne and those are the following words in that booke agrees with the saying of Christ in Math 6.6 and with the order of the Spirit in the 1 Cor 14. which is to pray with the spirit and the understanding ver 15. Therefore thy lyes and slanders harmes us not And thou sayes wee are against all Davids prayers and prophesies and singing contrary to Scripture and cites the Answer to Sam Eaton P 26. Let that Book witnesse for the truth against thy deceit singing of Psalmes and hymns

but cannot with all that thou hast scraped together prove that it is the word which is eternal life and so the word that was in the beginning with God and was God John 1.1 Thou accusest them for saying the saints ground of acting is not the outward Letter but the Spirit which gave forth the letter and saith here they set the word at distance from the spirit and sets figurative glosses upon the Scriptures Here thou art blinded and knows not the Saints ground and art accusing them falsly that witnesse to it and sayes they set the word at distance from the spirit The word and spirit cannot be set at difference nor distance except God could be devided and that cannot be for God is the word John 1.1 and God is that spirit 2 Cor 3.17 Therefore the word and the spirit are inseperable but the Letter is not God nor the letter is not the spirit therefore not that word which liveth and abideth for ever 1 Pet. 1.23 by which word the World was framed Heb. 11.3 and made Heb. 1.2 In which word is the life and the Light of men which the Letter doth declare of but is not the life and Light of men neither were all things made by the letter that were made but by the word they were John 1.1 2 3 c. This is plain Scripture without figurative glosse the glosses are thy own that with thy logick and magick art would make the Scriptures God and Christ but cannot and would make them the ground of the Saints actings when they are not but the Lord God and his spirit is for the Lord God and his spirit sent me saith the servant of the Lord Isa 48. and the Lord teacheth his that he so sends to profit v. 16 17. and the manifestation of the spirit is given to profit withall 1 Cor. 12.7 and saith God I will poure out of my spirit and your sons and daughters shall prophesie and such may speak of the things of God Thy meanings I deny and the fancy is thy own and the sure word of Prophesie we witnesse to and do not to it say no therefore in that thou hast further uttered thy lyes and manifested thy deceitfull spirit as in page 7. Thou sayes they say there is no Scripture for the Trinity contrary to John 5.7 which expresly saith There are three that beare witnesse in Heaven the Father the Word and the Spirit and these three are all one here is Trinity thou sayes here thou hast perverted the Scripture saying here is Trinity when it expresseth no such word in that nor any other Scripture as Trinity but the Father Son and Spirit which are one that we witnesse and as Christ hath said At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you Joh. 14.20 The Father Son and holy Ghost are one but it doth not speak of distinct persons three therefore thou art yet to prove a Trinity The Holy Ghost is no person but dwelleth in persons or bodies of Saints and he that abideth in the doctrine of Christ hath both the Father and the Son as saith the Scripture in the 2 Epistle of John 9 Concerning the Light and Christ the way to the Father That Christ is the way to the Father is set down in Edward Burroughs Book to Vnderbarrow p. 4. and that the Scriptures witness and do not contradict John 14.6 but thou hast wrested Edward Burroughs words and therefore thou art a lier there is not such a word as purchased in that page and there lyeth the weight of thy matter but that Christ is the true Light that enlightneth every man that cometh into the World the Scriptures witnesse John 1.9 Therefore if thou say the contray the Scriptures thou therein contradicttest and not he take notice of that and withall that Christ is the Light of the World and a saving Light to all that obey him as saith the Scriptures and such as follow him the true Light are by him led out of darknesse into the light of life as he hath said John 8.12 Heb 5.8 9 and that word magnifie the Light thou puts in but if we do and as Mary did we magnifie the Lord 1 John 1.5 and art thou offended at that therein thou contradicts the Scripture where it saith My soule doth magnifie the Lord Luke 1.26 Luke 2.29 30 31 32. and thou also contradicts thy selfe and lyes against Christ the true Light calling him naturall and common and lyes of such as witnesse Christ and the Light of his spirit and according to the declaration of the Scriptures And where thou art offended at George Fox for saying the light of Christ is life it is but to manifest thy envy against the truth and thy contradictions to the Scriptures for the Scripture saith Christ is the Light John 1.9 and he is life even the way the truth and the life John 14. and such as follow him the true Light are led out of darknesse errour and deceit into the Light of Life John 8.12 And againe thou accusest George Fox for saying the light is the word but it is but to manifest thy further contradictions to the Scriptures for the Scripture sayes God is the Light John 1.5 and God is the Word John 1.1 c. Therefore in that thou hast manifested thy ignorance of the Scriptures and knows not the Light and the word for as God is the Light and the Word so also is Christ John 8.12 Rev. 19.13 and the Father and Son are one and such as abide in the doctrine of Christ have the Light and the Word of God abiding in them 1 John 2.12 13 14. and they may speak from it that have fellowship with it And thou sayes they would send you to read the Scriptures in the creatures quoting the Book of parables That Book shal witnesse for the truth against thee and thy generation and also let the wise hearted take notice that he that is in Christ is a new creature 2 Cor. 5.16 17. and that they are Epistles written in one anothers hearts seen and read in one another that are such creatures 2 Cor. 3. And there again thou hast shewed thy ignorance of those Epistles and lyed of the truth with thy deceitfull spirit by twisting and winding about but thou may well lye of us that lyes of the Apostle Paul and wrests not our words onely but his also for where thou speaks his words where he sayes It pleased God by the foolishnesse of Preaching and as thou sayes a Text a Doctrine a Reason an Use out of the Word to save them that beleive when there is not any such words of his there as Text Doctrine Reason Use to save them that beleive and here thou hast lyed of him and thou wouldst make the Letter a Saviour for thou calls that the Word and so thou wouldst have a salvation without Christ except thou make the letter of the Scripture Christ and there againe

thou must needs erre and lie being out of the living truth guided by a spirit of error and deceit thou canst do no other as for the soule which thou puzzles thy minde about thou art ignorant of that knows not the living word of God which devides asunder betwixt soule and spirit as the Scripture declareth Heb. 4.12 and the Serpent being head in thee he is ranging and raking up stuffe out of the bottomles pit to hide and cover himself withall but thou art seen and weighed and thou art offended at the Saints life as the Serpents seed ever was and all thy wrestings cannot seperate the Father and the Son asunder and he that hath the Father hath the Son and eternall life abiding it him 1 Joh. 5.11 12. and abiding in the doctrine of Christ he hath both the Father the Son 2 Joh. 9. and is changed from glory to glory into the same pure Image which thou art ignorant of 2 Cor. 3.17 18. and he that hath said the Father and the Son are one I and my Father are one doth not contradict Scripture as thou dost and also as J Stalham doth who himself pleads for bread wine as an Ordinance to last till Christ come personally upon earth and to be a substantiall Christ in that bread at institution and to have a spirit in the bread and a spirit in the Letter and to be given by it to be born of the Scripture such like stuffe as that being his conjurations and without bottome from the word and so you are those that denye Gods indwelling in Saints that knows not something eternall in them God is not created and he hath said I will dwell in them and walke in them 2 Cor 6 16. and the life of Christ is manifest in Saints bodies 2 Cor 4. and the Father the Son are in union together in them that are sanctified and preserved 2 Joh. 9. and as Christ hath said At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you Joh. 14.20 such may witnesse him and great is the admiration where Christ is glorified in Saints 2 Thes 1.10 that the same minde is in them that is in him Phil 2. Rom. 8. and that God sends the spirit of his Sonne into their hearts that they cry Abba Father Gal. 4.6 wonderfull is the love of God to his children to be admired 1 Joh. 3. which thou art a stranger unto as thou hast made thy self manifest And to thy 2d that the light of Christ is the light of the world is witnessed the true light that lighteth every man that comes into the world such as follow him the true light are led by him into the Light of Life which light is the condemnation of such as hate it act contrary to it and that accusation of thine before is written to in answer to J●● Stalham thy companion in the Evill who are both acting against the truth so serving the Devill for that Booke of James Naylor in answer to the perfect Pharisee It will stand as a witnesse against you and your generation also all the other bookes which you wrested but cannot shake any child of Truth they stand upon you see you painted harlots to be deckt coloured with the whores atire you and your stuffe is fuel for the fire And to thy 4th that some are come out of the fall that we witnesse that the second Adam hath redeemed and is redeeming what the first Adam lost blessed are all they that waite for him but thou art opposing the Truth scraping up Scriptures to plead for sin to prove that Adam in a covenant of workes before he fell and contradicts thy selfe therein as before is proved makes thy selfe manifest to be in the fall and yet under the curse And to thy 5th no sin nor such imperfect thing can be reconciled to God nor enter into his kingdome is true and witnessed which thou accusest James Naylor of and to shew forth thy deceit thou sayes Reason would thinke that no perfect thing could be reconciled to God here thy reason would joine the seed of the Serpent the seed of God together but cannot 1 Cor 6.9 10 Rev. 2● 8.27 for it and thou art shut out with the Light which thou art an enemie unto and when thou hast scraped up much stuffe to no purpose then thou closest it up with 2 or 3 Scriptures as if God and sin could be reconciled together which cannot be but Christ being manifested to take away sin destroy the workes of the Devill 1 Joh 3.3 4 5. c. he is the way makes way to reconcile such to God Justifying them from ungodlinesse and sanctifying them 1 Cor 6.11 Heb. 2. for both he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all one for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren ● 11 so he that brings many sons unto glory v. 10. doth take away their sins and sanctifies them and presents them blameles and perfect before God Eph. 5. without spot or wrinkle or any such thing v 26 27. and where there is sin there is spot and wrinkle such like things and that conclusion of thine is a false one and from the spirit of deceit that would reconcile God and sin together but that soul in whom sin hath dwelt being seperated from sin is made righteous and the creature also and being sanctified is reconciled which thou art ignorant of and of the seed in him 1 Joh. 3.9 that is born of God and so sanctified 1 Pet. 1.22 23. And the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdome of god then such are not reconciled 1 Cor. 6.10 11. Gal. 5.19 20. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth but sin defileth therefore God and sin are not reconciled nor such as live and act in it and plead for it neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a lye look to it ye unrighteous ones but such shall enter as are without sin and are reconciled being written in the Lambs book of life Rev. 21.27 To thy sixt That Jesus Christ is the onely Light and no other Light besides him to salvation this is one thing that thou seeks to oppose and accuse J Nayler for Oh! that ever man should be so blinde and carried on wilfully to act the Devills part as thou art thy scraped up stuffe I turn unde and witnesse against thy spirit and I witnesse that Christ is the true Light and the way to the Father and the alone Saviour of all that obey him Heb. 5.8 9. and perfectly able to save all that come unto God by him Heb. 7.25 without any thing contrary to him or the invention and divination of thy brain or such in thy nature as further is cleared before in Answer to thy partaker Joh Stalham But thou must needs