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A40242	Saul's errand to Damascus, with his packet of letters from the high priests against the disciples of the Lord, or, A faithful transcript of a petition contrived by some persons in Lancashier who call themselves ministers of the Gospel breathing out threatnings and slaughters against a peaceable & godly people there, by them nick-named Quakers : together with the defence of the persons thereby traduced against, the slanderous and false suggestions of that petition, and other untruths charged upon them : published to no other end but to draw out the bowels of tender compassion from all that love the poor despised servants of Jesus Christ, who have been the scorn of carnal men in all ages.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; Lawson, John.	1654 (1654)	Wing F1895; ESTC R37353	29,928	47

Christ with one Spirit into one body that I confess according to Scripture and the Lords Supper I confess and that the brend the Saints Gal. 3. 27. break is body of Christ and that cup which they drink is the Ioh. 6. 53. 55. blood of Christ this I witnesse Object 3. He did disswade men from reading the Scriptures telling them that it is carnal Answ For disswading men from reading the Scriptures that is false for they were given to be read as they are but not to 1 Cor. 2. 10. 16. make a Trade upon the Letter is carnall and killeth but that which gave it forth is spiritual eternall and giveth life and this I witnesse Object 4. That he was equall with God Answ That was not so spoken but that He that sanctifieth Heb. 2. 11. and they that are sanctified are of one and the Saints are all 〈…〉 Eph. 5. 30. this the Scripture doth witness And ye are the Sons of God and the Father and he Son are one and they that are joyned to the Lord are one Spirit and they that are joyned to an harlot are on flesh Object That God taught deceit Answ That is false and was never spoken by me God is pure Object That the Scriptures are Antichrist Answ That is false but that they which prosess the Scriptures and live not in the life and power of them as they did that gave them forth that I witness to be Antichrist Object That he was the judge of the world Answ That the Saints shall Judge the world the Scripture witness it whereof I am one and I witness the Scripture fulfilled Cor. 6. 2. 3. Object That he was as upright as Christ Answ Those were not so spoken by me but that as he is so are we in this present world That the Saints are made the 1 Ioh. 4. 17. righteonsness of God That the Saints are one in the Father and 2 Cor. 5. 21. the Son that we shall he like him 1 John 3. 3. and that all Ioh. 17. 21. 22. teaching which is given forth by Christ is to bring the Saints to perfection even 〈◊〉 the measure of the stature of the fastness Eph. 4. 11. 12. 13. of Christ This the Scripture doth witness and this I witness Where Christ dwels must not ●e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Temple Queries propounded to George Fox by some of the Contrivers of the Petition and by him Answered Query WHether there be one individual God distinguished into the Father Son and Holy Ghost or not Answ Herein thou wouldst know whether God be individual yea or no which is but a busie minde for hadst thou the witness in thy self thou wouldst know that he is but the Heathen know not God and all that know him not are Heathen living in the wicked imiginations of their own hearts and that is thy condition For God is a Spirit and none know him but the Son and he to whom the Son is revealed the Son and the Word is one He that hath ears to bear let him bear what the Spirit saith for thou natural man thou knowest not the things of God Qu. Whether a believer be justified by Christs righteousness imputed yea or no Answ He that beleeveth is born of God and he that is born of God is justified by Christ alone without imputation Qu. Whether he that beleeveth that Christ hath taken away his sin is clean without sin in this life as Christ himself or not Answ He that believeth is born of God and he that is born of God sins not neither can he sin because his seed remaineth in him as he is so are we in this present evil world Qu. Whether a Believer be without all sin in this life or not Answ Christ being made manifest is made manifest to take away sin and in him is no sin at all he that abideth in him sins not he that sins is of the Devil and bath not seen him in the true Church of God there is no talk of such carnal things Thou Sot the Bread which the Saints break is of the body of Christ he is the bread of life The Church is not the Steeple-house but the Church is in God and those that eat the bread of life live for ever the Church is in God and the bread of life is there and it shall continue for ever Qu. Whether Christ in the flesh be a figure or not and if a figure how and in what Answ Christ is the substance of all figures and his flesh is a figure for every one passeth through the same way as he did who comes to know Christ in the flesh there must be a suffering with him before there be a rejoycing with him Christ is an example for all to walk after and if thou know'st what an example is thou wouldst know what a figure is to come up to the same fulness Qu. Weether there be any Heaven or Hell for the Elect or Reprobute after death but in man in this life or not Answ There is no knowledge of Heaven or Hell but through death the wicked shall be turned into bell and all them that forget God there to be tormented there is a hell thou shalt finde it Heaven is God Throne and Heavenly notions within shall be shaken for God is pure and nothing that is unclean shall stand before him and he hath said he will dwell in man Qu. Whether the Ministration of the Ministory by man is to continue till the end or not Answ The Ministration of the world is the Ministry of man and doth not lead to an end but keeps in time and that must have on end for it is not of God The Ministery of God is to draw people up to himself but that is not of man nor by man nor according to man or Paul was made a Minister according to the wil of God who had not received it of man neither was it taught him of man and was a Minister of the Spint but the Ministers of the world receive their learning as Oxford and Cambridge and are taught of men and speak a divination of their own brain which is conjuring and bewitch the people with those things which are carnal as to sprinkle Infants and tell them of a Sacrament which there is no Scripture for and saying they are the Ministers of Christ and act those things which he forbids as to have the chiefest place in the assemblies the uppermost room at feasts the greeting in Markets and to be called of men Masters and with pretence make long prayers which Christ forbids and profess and say they are the Ministers of Christ wherein they shew themselves to be Antichrist And see if thou do not uphold these Antichrists and say they are the Ministers of Christ Qu. Whether the written Word I mean the Scriptures be the power of God unto Salvrtion to every one that believes or not Answ The written Word is not the power of God not

SAUL'S ERRAND TO DAMASCVS With His Packet of Letters from the High-Priests against the Disciples of the Lord. OR A faithful Transcript of a PETITION contrived by some Persons in Lancashier who call themselves Ministers of the Gospel breathing out threatnings and slaughters against a peaceable godly people there by them nick-named QUAKERS Together with the Defence of the Persons thereby traduced against the slanderous and false suggestions of that Petition and other untruths charged upon them Published to no other end but to draw out the bowels of tender compassion from all that love the poor despised servants of Jesus Christ who have been the scorn of carnal men in all ages Mat. 5. 10. 11. 12. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsly for my sake Rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in Heaven for so persecuted they the Prophets which were be-before you London Printed for Giles Calvert at the black Spread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1614. To all that love the Lord Jesus Christ Dear Hearts YOu love the Lord Iesus Christ and not him alone but Christ with all his Train Great shall be your compensation for your Love you shall have Loves Can. 7. 12. Amores a plurality and infinity of Loves which none but God in Christ hath to bestow The best of his relations upon earth have but single Love and t is happy they have Love to the Brethren But Christ hath Loves for the meanest of you the least of his May you and all his in whom there are yet but buds scarce visible appearances of Graces prove fruitful Vines grow from Buds to Blossoms from Blossoms to abundance of fruits That when the Lord shall get up early to visit his Vineyard you may feast him with pleasant fruits new and old you may bless him for his Loves of former and latter days and be ever to him an humble holy and thankful and to his brethren a comforting people Glory in your habit you wear the signal Favours of the King of kings and Lord of Hosts the Great and Mighty Jehovah Love By which I know to whom ye belong because ye love the Brethren To the Contrivers and Subscribers of the Petition Poor Hearts IS this a time to chide be angry and pick quarrels and if you must needs do so can you find no other objects of your indignation but the Lords Disciples but peaceable holy humble self-denying men Is not the work of the Ministry to preach the Gospel Is not the Sword of the Magistrate appointed to the punishment of evil doers and to the praise of them that do well Are you incumbent in your duties Are you laying out your Talents to the end they were given you or are you mistaken in the thing When did you proclaim war against Drunkards Swearers common blasphemers enemies to the Lord and his people Have you none of those amongst you or are your high-flown contending Spirits gone beyond such slender wrastlings that you scorn to encounter with any below the degree of a Saint The Lord open your eyes and let you see and give you hearts to consider your several duties But tell me ye sons of Levi as ye call your selves ye that pretend a Ius Divinum to persecution What will ye say when the Son of man shall come in his glory and all the holy Angels with him and shall sit upon the Throne of his glory and all Nations shall be gathered before him Mind ye what will be the great work of that great day your Petition will surely then be heard I beseech you read the Paper of Causes set down to be first heard at that Tribunal in Mat. 25. 31. to the end of the Chapter And the Lord let it dwell upon your hearts for ever To the Christian READER THese are to let thee know that the onely wise God at this time hath so by his providence ordered it in the North parts of Lancashier that many precious Christians and so for many years accounted before the nickname Quakers was heard of have for some time past forborn to concorporate in Parochial Assemblies wherein they profess themselves to have gained little of the knowledge of Jesus Christ And it is and hath been put upon their hearts to meet often and on the Lords Day constantly at convenient places to seek the Lord their Redeemer and to worship him in Spirit and in Truth and to speak of such things tending to mutual edification as the good Spirit of the Lord shall teach them demeaning themselves without any offence given to any that truly fear the Lord. But true it is that some men and interests of those parts do take great offence at them and their Christian and peaceable exercises some because they have witnessed against pride and luxuriant fulness have therefore come armed with Sword and Pistols men that never drew a sword for the interest of the Commo-wealth of ENGLAND perhaps against it into their Assemblies in time of their Christian performances and have taken him whom the Lord at that instant had moved to speak to the rest and others of their Assembly after they had haled and beaten them and carried them bound hand and feet into the open fields in the cold of the night and there left them to the hazard of their lives had not the Lord of life owned them which he did in much mercy Others have had their houses broken in the night and entred by men armed as aforesaid and disguised when they have been peaceably waiting upon God with their own and neighbour families and yet these humble persecuted Christians would not even in these cases of gross and intolerable affronts acted equally against the peace of the Nation as against them complain but expressed how much in measure of their Masters patience was given them in breathing out their Masters gentle words Father forgive them they know not what they do Who have at any time born such unheard of persecution with so mild Spirits only they in whom persecuted Christ dwels these poor Creatures know how their Master fared and rejoyce to suffer with him by whom alone they hope to be glorified and are as well content to suffer as to reign with Christ but how unwillingly do we deny ourselves and take up our cross and follow Christ and yet a necessity lies upon us if we will be the Lords Disciples to take up our cross dayly and follow him How is it then that the Crown of Pride is so long upon the head of persecutors how is it that such men should dare to divide the people of ENGLAND to trouble the Councel of State in the throng of business concerning the management and improvement of all the mighty Series of glorious providence made out to this infant● Common wealth with such abominable

is blind and they that say the Letter John 8. 12. and the Spirit are inseparable when the Spirit saith the Letter is death and killeth and all that do study to raise a living thing out of a dead to raise the Spirit out of the Letter are Conjures and draw points and reasons and so do Jer. 23. 16. speak a divination of their own brain they are Conjurers Jer. 27. 9. 10 and Diviners and their teaching is from Conjuration which is not spoken from the mouth of the Lord and the Lord is against all such and who are of God are against all such for that Doctrine doth not profit the people at al for it stands not in the councel of God but is a doctrine of the Devil and drawes people from God but he that speaks from the mouth of the Lord turns people from their wickednes but that Ministery which God hath not sent and that assembly must be disaffected for the Lord is coming to teach his people himself by his Spirit Heb. 8. 11. Object George Fox said the Soripure was carnay Ans The Letter of the Scripture is carnal and the Letter is death and killeth but the Spirit giveth life which was in them Heb. 7. 16. that gave forth the Scriptures and that I witnes which is eternal and not carnal for the Jews which had the Letter persecuted Iesus Christ the substance and so do you now which have the Letter and not the Substance there were Ministers of the Letter then and Ministers of the Spirit so there is now the Col. 1. 27. same Christ being made manifest is unknown to the world for the whole world Lyeth in wickednes and Christ Jesus is a Mystery to the world and is bid though you may profeses him because the Letter speaketh of him but ye persecute him where 1 Iohn 3. 8 be is made manifest and where he is made manifest the works of the devil are destroyed and there be speaks and is King 1 Ioh. 5. ●● and is the way and is the truth and is the life and he that hath Rom. 8 11. the Son hath life and he that hath not the Son hath not life and he 1 Cor. 6. 27. that hath the same spirit that raised up Iesus Christ is equal 2 Cor. 6. 10. wth God and the Scripture saith that God wildwel in man walk in man as Iesus Christ which is the mystery hath passed before so the same Spirit takes upon it the same seed and is the same where it is made manifest according to the flesh I am the son of Abraham according to the Spirit the Son of God saith Christ All the plotting of the Priests is and ever was against Christ where he is made manifest and the Boast shall Col. 1. 27 make rear with the Saints and with the Lamb but the Heb. 2. 11. Lamb shall get the victory praises praises be to our God for ever for evermore Obj. Richard Huberthorn writ that Christs coming in the flesh was but a figure Ans Christ in his people is the substance of all figures tipes and shadows fulfilling them in them and setting them free from them But as he is held forth in the Scripture-Letter without them and in the flesh without them he is their example or figure which is both 〈◊〉 that the same things might be fulfilled in them that was in Christ Iesus for even her innto were 1 Pet. 2. 21. ye called because Christ hath suffered for us leaving us an example 1 Pet. 4. 1. that we should follow his steps for asmuch as Christ hath suffered 1 Pet. 1. 19. for us arm yourselves likewise with the same mind Christ was our example in suffering and in holinesse and as he which hath called you is holy so be ye holy in all manner of conversation Iohn 13. 15. because it is writen Be ye holy as I am holy he is our example in humility I have given you an example saith Christ that ye should do even as I have done unto you And as he is so are we in this World He is our forerunner Captain of our salvaton and in all things our example As they have done unto me so shall they do unto you But all they who have not Christ dwelling in them go about to persecute him in all them in whom he is made manifest they neither follow him as an example themselves nor suffer others to follow him as an example and walk in the same steps but deny him both as the substance and example of his people but they who are taught of him do confesse him both as he is the substance of all things and their example in all things for without me ye can do nothing saith Christ and it is so I witnesse it And as for Iames Milner though his mind did run out from his condition and from minding that light of God which is in him whereby the world takes occasion to speak against the Truth and many friends stumble at it yet there is a pure seed in him Object Leonard Fell said that Christ had no body but his Church Answ There is one body and one Spirit even as ye are called 〈◊〉 4. 4. into one hope of your calling and Christ Iesus is the head of the 〈◊〉 1. 18. Body the Church and ye are made free from sin by the body of Cor. 5. 19. Christ and Christ came to redeem his Church God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself for his bodies sake which is 〈◊〉 1. 24. his Church For we are members of his Body of his flesh and of 〈◊〉 5. 30. his bones this is a great Mystery but I speak concerning Christ and his Church And hath put all things under his feet and gave 〈◊〉 22. 23. him to be the head over all things to the Church which is his body The fulnesse of him that filleth al in al in whom also we are builed up together for an habitation of God through the Spirit More Objections against George Fox charged upon him by the Contrivers of the foresaid Petition and Answered by him as followeth Object 1 THat he did affirm that he had the Divinity ossentiall in him Answ For the word essential it is an expression of thir own but that the Saints are the Temples of God and God doth dwell 2 Cor. 6. 1. in them that the Scriptures do witnesse and if God dwell in Eph. 4. 6. them then the Divinity dwels in them and the Scripture saith 2 Pet. 1. 4. Ye shall be partakers of the Divine nature and this I witnesse but where this is not they cannot witnesse it Object 2. That both Baptisme and the Lords Supper are unlawfull Answ As for that word unlawful it was not spoken by me but the Baptisme of Infants I deny and there is no Scripture that speaks of a Sacrament but that Baptism that is into