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A40227	The papists strength, principles, and doctrines (which they are sworn to preach, from the Councel of Trent, by the Popes authority, and after confirmed by the last General Assembly at Rouen, 1571, all which they have sworn to perform) answered and confuted furthermore their principles and doctrines answered and confuted, as they were laid down in two or three severall papers, by R.W. papist, lately sent from Holland : also a challenge to the pope and all his adherents to choose out of all his dominions some cardinals, fryers, or Jesuits to try their bread and wine, after consecration (by watching on their side and on our side) to prove that if afterward they have consecrated it, whether the bread and wine doth not loose its taste and savour, and so not the body and blood of Christ : also a paper to all them that fast and afflict themselves who are in the will-worship and voluntary humility : also some quæries to all the papists upon earth to be answered in writing and sent to them, which all sects upon the earth call Quakers / by George Fox.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1658 (1658)	Wing F1877; ESTC R3577	83,037	105

they should continue in the Father and in the Son and they that went forth from the Apostles went forth from this and in the Revelations it is declared that all the world went after them who had the lying signes wonders and the miracles and deceived them that dwelt upon the earth and that has been the worship of the beast and this has been since the dayes of the Apostles who said some should depart from the faith which is the shield and so made war against the Saints which was in the faith and over-came them but now the Devill shall be taken and with him the beast and the false Prophets and cast alive into the lake of fire and Babylon the great whore confounded and the Lamb and the Saints shall have the victory and the everlasting Gospel shall be preached to them that dwell upon the face of the earth which is the power of God and strike down all those that has got the words but not the power and reach to the life and immortality that that may come to light through the Gospel which is the power of God and to you that is the word of God The Profession of the Catholique Faith of the last Councell of Roüen holden in the year 1571. according to the Councell of Trent holden the year 1360. which they have taken upon oath and sworn to perform Answ. WHich Faith and profession and Catholique which is held up and performed by an oath a company of swearers which are sworn to perform the Catholique Faith and Profession is got up since the dayes of the Apostles and since the dayes of Jesus Christ in the flesh and separate from them for Christ saith swear not at all though they had sworn in the old time Christ who was the oath of God and the Apostle saith above all things my brethren swear not who was in the covenant of God the oath of God not by heaven nor by earth nor any other oath least ye fall into condemnation so all swearers whatsoever Papists or other that are called Christians are fallen under the condemnation And the Apostles contended for the Faith and was in the Faith till death and true brethren vvhich vvas held up vvithout an oath so all that hold up or perform their Profession of Faith vvith an oath are apostatized from the true Church Faith and Profession from it reprobated and are under condemnation from the Apostles Saints and Christ vvhich vvas never svvorn to perform the Profession of their Church though the first Priest-hood svvore and the Angel and men in strife and Abraham and Solomon and Moses and the Prophets yet Christ the second Priest-hood the covenant of God and the oath of God is that vvhich ends all o●ths and denyed svvearing and the Apostl●s that vvere in the faith of him denyed swearing and these was of the true Church and pure Religion And though the Angell swore the Angels must bow down to the Son of God that saith Swear not at all who is the end of the Prophets greater then Solomon the end of Moses reigns over the houshold of Jacob and Joseph and before Abraham who said swear not Christ Jesus him by whom all things was made before it was made the Master of the family of Heaven and Earth who is the Author of the true faith which is held without an oath which Author of Faith denies oaths and swearing and ends them and they deny swearing that be in his faith 1. and 2. Prin●iples IN N. believe of firme faith and professe all and every of the things contained in the symball of the Faith which the holy Roman Church uses viz. 1 I believe in God the Father all powerful Creator of heaven and of the earth and of all things visible and invisible 2 And in one Lord Jesus Christ the onely Son of God and begotten of the Father before all the worlds God of God Light of Light true God of true God begotten and not made consubstantial with the Father by whom all things have been made who for all men for our salvation is descended from heaven and hath been incarnated by the holy spirit of the Virgin Mary and hath been made man hath been also crucified for us under Pontius Pilate hath suffered and hath been entombed and is risen again the third day according to the Scriptures and is ascended into heaven is set at the right hand of the Father and again shall come in his glory to judge the living and the dead the Kingdome of whom shall have no end Answ. You are not in the true faith of the Son of God nor know him not to be come in the flesh that be swearers and you that be not in the faith of the Son of God you know not God but swearers are under the condemnation and knows not him that was crucified that said swear not at all And knows not him that dyed and rose again and him that is the Light of the world and the Judge of the world Christ Jesus the Saviour by whom all things was made made of a woman born of a Virgin who is one with the Father him ye know not that be out of the faith of him and the Apostles who said Swear not at all whose profession Church Faith and Religion is held up by swearing and oaths with all your stuffe and invented words apostatized from Christ and the Apostles Church profession and faith and Religion under the condemnation and all professions besides upon the earth which is held up by oaths and swearing are under the condemnation in the reprobacy concerning the faith which is in Christ Jesus which gives the victory and is the shield and in which men please God without an oath you cannot please men nor worship without an oath 3 Prin. And in the holy Spirit Lord and quickning power who proceeds from the Father and the Son who with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified who hath spoken by the Prophets Ans. You talk of believing in the Spirit that proceeds from the Father and the Son or God that spoke by his Prophets which Christ is the end of the Prophets and you talk of true worship as speaks in spirit and truth which the Devil and enmity is out of you talk of these things who holds up your Church profession and Religion with oaths a company of Apostates from the true faith which the Apostles were in which Christ is the Author of which faith hearing the spirit is received which denies oaths and then in that spirit is God worshipped and the Scripture known given forth from it and the Son and the Father known the Spirit received and the spirit of the Prophets and the end of their words Christ Jesus these are all known by the hearing of faith wherein the spirit is received 4 Prin. And one holy Church Catholique and Apostolique 5 Prin. I confess one baptism for the remission of sins and wait for the resurrection of the dead and for

the life of the world to come 6 Prin. I admit and embrace most firmely the traditions Apostolique and Ecclesiastick and all the other observations and ordinances of the same Church Answ. Your traditions your word Catholique your sprinkling Infants which you call your baptisme does not remit your sins for there is no Scripture for it so Church traditions sprinkling Infants all have got up since the dayes of the Apostles and so the unholy Catholique and Apostolique Church traditions is got up since the dayes of the Apostles and your fruits declare it in the Apostacy from the true Church of the Saints and Apostles and the resurrection Christ you be ignorant of and the power of the world to come that be gone out of the faith that the Apostles were in 7 Prin. I admit also the holy Scripture according to the sense that hath been given by the holy mother Church to the which it appertaineth to judge of the true sense and interpretations of the holy Scripture and shall never take in hand to interpret them then according to the common consent of the Fathers Answ. Your mother which you call the holy Church which gives the sense is the whore from the spirit of God which the Apostles was in and Christ and the Prophets for that is it that knows the Scripture and that was in the Saints that gave it forth and all must have it in them before they know the words again and come into unity with God again of whom they learned that gave it forth and unity with the Scripture and one with another and this both Papists and Protestants are out of the spirit and falling out about the sense of Scripture and your Father and Mother sons which ravened from the spirit of God and so thou and you all teachers from others inventions and your teaching is traditions for Doctrine which are the commands of men but now to the Lord be glory ye are all discovered by his life 8 Prin. More I professe that there is seven truly and properly said Sacraments of the new Law instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ and necessary for the salvation of humane people but not all to every one viz. Baptism Confirmation Eucharist penitence the extream unction the Order and Marriage and that they confirme the grace and that among them the baptisme the confirmation and the order cannot be rejected without sacriledge Answ. In this you have shewed your Apostacy again from the Apostles and Christs doctrine which sayes Go preach the Gospell to all nations baptizing them without any limit and Marriage they that forbid that is the doctrine of Devils which is honourable the Bed undefiled in all And the Apostles doth not call them Sacraments neither Baptisme nor Marriage nor the visiting of the sick nor the Lords Supper Your confirmation and order and your penitence whipping and beating your selves for your sins is your own invention a sacrament of your owne making which the Apostle does not call repentance a sacrament or confessing of sin or sorrowing for sin the nature within should be afflicted and circumcised in the spirit which puts off the body of sin and that brought down and not to strike the creature and beat the creature that is as you wrestle with flesh and blood the power of darknesse causes you to do that which guides you within that strikes at the creature which power of darknesse should be struck at that the creature might come into the liberty of the sons of God 9 Prin. I receive also and admit the Ceremonies of the Church Catholique receive and approve in the administration solemnly of all the abovesaid sacraments 10 Prin. I embrace and receive all and every of the things which hath been defined and declared by the sacred holy Councel of Trent touching the sin originall and the justification 11 Prin. I protest likewise that in the masse is offered to God true proper and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and for the dead and that in the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist is truly really and substantially the body the blood with the soule and the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ and that there is made a conversion of all the substance of the bread into the body and of all the substance of the wine into the blood and the which conversion the Church Catholique calls Transubstantiation 12 Prin. I confess also that under one of these one receiveth Jesus Christ all entire and one true sacrament Answ. In these four Principles which ye teach for Doctrine is but your owne traditions and commandements which are learned of one another of men at the Council of T●ent and at your Fathers which is your sin in the apostacy from the Apostles who was not of man nor by man And as concerning Justification ye are ignorant of for where that is known the sin is done away which came by the first Adam And they that believe are passed from death to life And there are some children of believers which is holy yet all by nature children of wrath in the unbelief and your Church is held up by tradition and traditions and vows and oaths which is all in the Apostacy from the spirit where it seems the root of the word protesting is come from your selves who are Apostates and not ftom the Scriptures but you have thrust it in your offering and mass it is but a dead thing it is neither good for the dead nor the living the living do not accept of it but as Cains sacrifice for are not you murtherers and destroyers of one another about Religion sacrifice and traditions as Cain did whom God did not accept his sacrifice And as the Jewes did without the life which gave forth the Scriptures turn against the just and all the Apostates since the dayes of the Apostles which are inwardly ravened from the spirit of God who set up all your lying signes and wonders and traditions and deceive people with them that dwell upon the earth who be from the spirit of God inwardly ravened from it in which spirit God is worshipped which spirit brings to offer living sacrifice And the bread and wine after they have consecrated it which you say is the very body and blood of Christ and soule and it 's divine and that ye call Transubstantiation and he that receives either bread or wine receives Christ Now seeing that this Doctrine and Principle is laid down by you the Council of Trent and tollerated by the great Bishop of Rome the Pope and taught by the Jesuites I shall demand one thing of you out of every Nation and from every Dominion and Island belonging to the Bishop of Rome the Pope Let there come forth a Bishop and a Jesuite and consecrate bread and wine and after consecration and conversion which you call transubstantiation which you say then is the very body blood and soul of Christ which is divine Let that then be set by and kept and let us take of

lusts and so into the wars that brought forth sin and so death and fighting and wars that hath brought forth among you and so out of that which takes away the occasion of wars and out of the faith that works by love and so in the dead faith which is Cains which will murder and kill them that sacrifices that are contrary to you so are not you stepped into Cains way from the true Church Moreover are not you those that hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ with respect of persons and so are transgressors committers of sin who breaks in that point as respecting of persons is guilty of all and drawing before your judgment-seats and killing You great and rich men whose time of weeping and howling is come and so are turned to be the blasphemers your Church is made up of blasphemers respecters of persons transgressors committers of sin convicted by the Law that goes out of Sion Now the fruit of your faith is not the works of charity for you 'l kill and murther like Cain so that faith is without the true works and the true charity but the belief is like the Devils and Cains who is not justified by that faith though you pretend faith and works to people but the ●ruits thereof declares you to be wolves and so erred from the truth Are not you swearers which James saith Above all things my brethren swear not at all lest ye fall into condemnation So are not you the false brethren the false Church the false Ministers fallen into the condemnation contrary to James who taught in the true Church and the true brethren that above all things they should not swear neither by heaven nor by earth nor by any other oath So is not your Church made up of Hereticks apostates that are given to fables and rudiments of the world and things below forbidding meats and marriages and reprobates concerning the true faith and belief which are found in the dead without the works but in the works of Cain and the Devill murtherers doing his works as the Jews did against Christ and the Apostles and Prophets Again the Apostle Peter bids beware of false teachers who said there are false prophets among the people even so there shall be false teachers among you who should bring in the damnable heresies which should bring upon themselves swift destruction even denying the Lord Jesus that bought them which are like to Sodome which are in their filthiness fulness and like unto Core turning away from the truth and Balaam and Cain Now is not Corah's Cains and Balaams marks found among you and h●●h not these made up your Church these which went forth from the Apostles Doth not your Inquisitions your Gaols and dens and persecutions and murthers of the Saints shew Cains marks before mentioned So let Corah's Cains and Balaams marks in your forheads testifi● which had the high words and spoke them in hypocrisie and beguiled the unstable souls who are the cursed children and contrary to the Apostles and just Lot and Noah the 8th person Who are the wells without the water trees without the fruit who having escaped the pollutions of the world by whom many is again overcome is brought in●o bondage by you so ●r●th hath been lost troden under your feet who ha●h born Corah's Cains Balaams image 2 Pet. 2. But your damnation slumbers not for you have denied the Lord in turning from the light which he hath lightned you withal going from the spirit as Cain Core Balaam did And then John wrote to little children said it was the last time whereof Antichrist should come even now there are many Antichrists come into the world whereby we know it is the last time which Christ said should come Matth. 7. And told them again Mat. 24. and said he had told them before concerning false Prophets and Antichrists should come inwardly ravening wolves devourers which John saw should come and went forth from them into the world and in the Revelation The whole world that dwelt upon the earth went after them So these that Christ said should come John saw was come inwardly ravening Wolves false Prophets false Teachers which the world is gone after hath made up your Church which went forth from the Apostles and Christ he said they should come bid them they should not go● after them and John who saw they was come bids them keep to the anointing in them They need no man to teach them but as the same anointing teacheth them and as they continue in this they continue in the Son and in the Father And from this are you all gone so that which Christ said should come John saw was come even the Antichrist and the false Prophets and how they should try the spirits that was gone forth into the world Again they should love one another and not as Cain slew his brother Why did he slay him because his sacrifice was accepted his was not Cains was not Now doth not the fruits of your Church shew you to be Cains your love which the Apostle saith not as Cains so are you not apostatized from the true Church the true love into Cains love so no true brethren and your love stands but in the word not in the deed and Iohn saith Little children keep your selves from Idols He saw the false Prophets Antichrists then come wch should run into those things Now here are not you apostatized again from the true Church and run into Idols who profess your selves to be men and teachers and so run in that that John bids the elect keep from 1 John So have proved your selves to be the false Apostles that run after Idols which Christ said should come and the Apostle saw was come that should if it we●e possible deceive the very elect with your Idols which the elect before the foundation of the world was made keeps from wch Idols your Church is full of Again Jude saw it crept up before his decease at unawares and he bids the Saints contend for the faith once delivered to them the common salvation So these that crept up in the days of Jude hath made up your Church again and separated themselves from the Apostle● sensual not having the spirit speaking the great high swelling words admiring the persons of men for advantage which are as Sodom and Gomorah and Corah offering strange fire you are offering the strange sacrifice who are like clouds winds raging waves of the Sea speaking great swelling words having mens persons in admiration going in the way of Cain Corah Balaam Now the marks of all these are found in your Church and found in your foreheads Cains sword is among you do not you rage do not you fome do not you kill do not you speak the high swelling words But Enochs prophecy is come to passe in ten thousands of his Saints is the Lord come to judgement and to convince you of your ungodly deeds and of

heresies and lying signes which is your crosse who are gone from the power of God which is the cross of Christ who are them which the Spirit spoke of expresly before the Apostles decease that should depart from the faith forbidding eating of meats and marriage which is the Divels doctrin who has given heed to seducing spirits now you may see it is your Mother which you call the Church which is the Mother of Harlots which your Mother harlotted from the true Church the Apostles doctrin for the true Church of the Apostles did never command that men should abstayn from meats or set up a crosse of wood or stone or worship Images or Saints or names or bow down to them but worship God and worship not the Angels Now these things hath been sett up since the dayes of the Apostles in the Apostacy from the true Church which has made war against the Saints and over-come them but now is the Saints and the Lamb come to have victory and now the Lamb and Saints will have victory who is come to reign and the holy Prophets and the Saints shall rejoyce over you sing and rejoyce ye heavens and rejoyce ye Saints and holy Prophets over her That 's your Church which is inwardly ravened from the spirit of God and has reigned over the Kings of the earth and all other that hath had the name of Christianity out of the life of Christ found in your skirts the Lamb will tread you together in the press without the City of the living God the Church which is the Pillar and ground of truth against which the gates of hell cannot prevail though they may fall all on heaps one among another about their worships And we say that your Mother the Church so called hath commanded and laid the foundation of tythes amongst the Protestants and all their observing of Saints dayes holy dayes and you have been them that has taught them to give the names yea to their Schooles Colleges Steeple-houses which were your mass-houses which the Protestants has made their Churches of them you were the first root and layer of the ground and Author of them you and they are all judged with the Spirit which is not Apostacy which was before Apostacy was Pr. I say again that Christ is not without a body and the same body which is in the Sacrament is that which was born of the Virgin Mary which dyed for us and now sitteth at the right hand of God and none other Answ. Heaven is above and earth is beneath there is an earthly body and there is a heavenly body a naturall and a spirituall and if that which was born of the Virgin Mary be your bread after consecration which body saw no corruption though put in the grave Now see if your bread which you call the body of Christ will not corrupt after it lye a while though you have consecrated it then how can you say that is the body of Christ at the right hand of God and outward bread which will corrupt which the body of Christ saw none which was born of the Virgin the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world yet he did not corrupt nor saw no corruption Pr. And to say is Christ to be looked for in the Saints is so profound that he cannot reach the depth of the meaning the Roman Catholiques use no such manner of speech Answ. I do believe you Since the dayes of the Apostles amongst you that are got up in your likenesses and Images that sayes its so profound you cannot reach the meaning of it to ask you whether Christ be in the Saints and amongst the Roman Catholiques you have no such manner of speech I do believe you And so you put him in the Sacrament without you and call the bread and wine his body and blood so this is to prove your selves to be reprobates so are judged by the Apostles doctrine and the Scripture Know you not in your own selves how that Jesus Christ is in you except ye be reprobates Priest The more honour we give to Saints the more honour we give to Christ Indeed to give godly honour to Saints is to commit idolatry Answ. If that you do not give godly honour to the Saints it is ungodly and here in this you have again confounded your selves and that honour which belongs to the Saints is of God and godly and not idolatry but that honour which you give which is not godly is given to such which are not Saints which is idolatry and so that honour which you should give to God you give to Images in kneeling to them and so in that you are as the heathen and are found idolaters which never did any of the Apostles kneel before an Image but you that inwardly ravened from the Spirit of God and so lost the image of God and fallen down to Images Pr. A Crosse a Crucifix or an Image of Christ or any Saint whether they be made of silver stone or wood are according to our doctrine but dead creatures neverthelesse are profitable and honourable memorials of them and do much help our devotion and demonstrate our love and affection to them and they are not Idols but they represent unto us Christ and his Saints Answ. So then they being but dead things and you bowing to dead things is to Idols for bowing to a dead stock or a stone is a bowing to Idols as saith the Prophet and dead images Now you having them as you say to represent unto you Christ and to put you in minde of him and the Saints shews that you have not Christs spirit in you nor him in you nor his mind in you so are reprobates and are none of his for those that have Christ in them and his minde in them need no such representations as to put them in minde of Christ or to fall down before Crosses Crucifixes Images dead things to stir up the love towards Ch●ist which the blood of Christ purgeth the conscience from dead workes and not to bow down to dead Images but thi● shews the love of God is not in you Dead things do not stirre up the love of God in people but the faith which works by love this stirs up the love towards Christ who is the Author of it and the Saints to make Images of the Saints and observing of dayes shews that you are not come to just mens spirits which who are need no other thing to put them in mind nor observe dayes for they see over dayes and so in these principles I see ye are reprobates concerning the faith which works by love for the love of God is not in you you are not come to the j●st mens spirits so not to the Church of the living God the mind of Christ you have not his spirit ye have not and Christ is not in you and so in the reprobation in the apostacy and are fain to have dead Images and pictures and crosses dead

Joshua and Israel falling down before the Ark which was in prayer to the Lord and the Lord heard him and spoke to him and answered him Now he doth not say that he fell down to the Ark or to the Images or bowed down to them for the Law was contrary which saith thou shalt not bow down c. But he and Israel fell down before the Ark to the Lord and this is nothing to the bowing now to Images and pictures and crosses for that was the time of the Figure there was a Temple made and many things Tabernacle and Sanctuary which was all in the types and figures before the substance was come But now the substance is come Christ Jesus who ends all types and figures and similitudes and the patterns for he is the substance of those things that figured him forth who hath opened their mouths So now your crosses and your images and your pictures and your bowings before them wch you have made and set up is Antichristian without any command of God against Christ who is the substance And if Joshua had bowed to the outward Arke or Altar or Temple or any of the Figures c. But it was not so and the command of God was the contrary and we say Christ is come the everlasting covenant the everlasting Priesthood for in the first Covenant and priesthood was the Figures and there was singings c. But now they that sing must sing in the spirit and they that pray must pray in the spirit and they that worship must worship in the spirit so it was the work of the Apostles to bring people off the shadows and changeable things to Christ the substance where there was no shadow not change nor variablenesse and to keep them from Idols and so all your idols images crosses crucifixes representations are set up since the Apostacy from the Apostles and so our mouths are eternally opened and that Scripture in Joshua the 7. brings nothing for you for the Jewes Ark is gone and down now and their Altar and Temple is down and gone and denyed by them that be true Christians in the life but them that have a name but be dead are setting up imitations and likenesses that has lost the life of Christ and his minde and the image of God are falling down before dead Idols but Christ is risen and those that be risen with him are seeking those things that be above for crosses crucifixes images idols be below among the dirty mud where the Devill is in the earth the murtherer and murthering one another about their Idols and these dead things which are all out of the truth Pr. And even as Joshua and the Israelites made their prayers to God after this manner and Ceremony so do we make our prayer unto Christ and the blessed Trinity and because we have or at least ought to have a sense of our own basenesse and of the just indignation of Christ against us we turne our selves to his Saints and blessed Mother who are likewise represented unto us by these pictures and do humbly beseech them to mediate between us and Christ Answ. Joshua his falling down before the Arke to pray to the Lord your falling down praying before your Images and Idols and Crosses to put you in minde of Christ is not measurable nor comparable with Joshua's but for the Ark which Joshua fell down before it is ended which Arke was a command of God but yours God never commanded but have been invented by you that have apostatized from the Apostles who saith Little children keep your selves from idols so that which God commanded being denyed which they fell before much more ought yours to be denyed which God never commanded and both are judged with the spirit of truth in which the Saints pray to God the Father of spirits who can pray without Images or representations or Idols and the Saints and the Apostles Christ bade them pray in his name not in the name of Mary not in the name of the Saints nor in the name of his Mother but ask in his own name for saith he Who is my mother sister and brother but those that do the will of my father So this I say though people be never so vile they are not to ask in the name of the Apostles nor of the Saints nor in the name of Mary but in the name of Christ and he hears such who asks in his name for there is no other name under heaven given by which any can be saved then by the name of Jesus Pr. He saith when ye shall see the signe of the Son of man which is the signe of the Cross in the ayre c. then shall all the mockers of this signe of the Cross seeke to hide themselves in the clifts of the Rocks Answ. Who be in the Crosse of Christ which is the power of God they are in Christ and are made free from the wrath that is to come and are in Christ which was before the hills rocks and mountains was setled but your rocks and your mountains and hills in the Apostacy hath covered you and to them you have cryed and under them you have sheltered who has drunk the blood of the Martyrs and Prophets and Saints since the days of the Apostles and your Crosse is in the Ayr set up by the prince thereof who have inwardly ravened from the spirit of God which is the lying signe and the wonder and not the signe of the Son of Man so spirituall Sodome and spirituall Aegypt which is darknesse mystery Babylon the great mother of harlots which inwardly ravened from the spirit of God which has reigned over the Kings of the Earth which have set up her inventions and turned against them that was in the spirit of God who be in the lying signes and wonders And the Son of man is coming upon you like a Thief in the night the same to day yesterday and for ever And all schisms and heresies in the whole Christendome so called is amongst you and such that professe the Scriptures but be out of the life that gave it forth which with it the life we comprehend you all which life was before the Scriptures was given forth and who be in it be of the Church Pr. He saith If you will look upon others then draw your eyes from the bad and worser sort and look upon the better sort whose lives and conversations are without reproof whose godlinesse innocency love and charity to all men c. more then any other sort and the very best amongst you in true reall worth and weight may no more compare then lead or dirt may be compared with gold Answ. Your works and fruits should praise you that is the counsell of a wise man and not thy own tongue and your own tongues but how can you speak of innocency or godlinesse or humility when that Fires Inquisitions and Gaols and killing of such as be contrary to your minds which

against whom you and all the sects upon ea●th appears that are come up since the dayes of the Apostles whom they comprehend and will tread to dust and to powder The seed of God is risen and the top-stone is laid glory to God in t●e highest Come out all Sects and S●ctaries to the battel and you are all in the vanity contenders and pretendeders got up since the days of the Apostles the marks are appeared not to be the marks o● the S●ints who hath the Fathers name written in their foreheads but you have the mark of the Beast upon you and without the true ground and the true reason of the Apostl●s ●re you out of For inst●nce the true Church taught not to persecute and the true reasonable men that was in the faith for faith gives victory over that nature in particular that would persecute and so doth not lead to kill the Creature for the sake of the nature in it in general And fafth teaches not this D●ct●ine but denies it and brings to suffer all things through which mountains are subdued Thou further saist They that are of a wicked life may have a right faith and reproves others that cannot believe it Answ. A wicked man he hath not faith of the el●ct of God for faith gives victory over wickednesse and faith purifies and faith makes reasonable and who are of the faith are of Abraham and come out of all these adulterous generations the mystery of Fai●h is h●ld in a pure conscience Now here you are in the errour you Papists and all Apostates from the Apostles like the Jewes and the Devil that hath a belief but is out of the truth yet may get a belief in the Letter as the Jewes held a belief long in the Letter but kill'd the Son And you have had the Letter and form of godlinesse long but killed the Saints and Martyrs who are reprobated Devils Jewes Apostates Papists from the elect of God for who are of faith ●re of Abraham and who are of Abraham are of the elect of Christ which doth not pertain to Idols And here is the mystery of the Church known the body of Christ which is a top of your flesh and Idols both which is not of the fl●sh of Abraham nor of the Church All you are but the pretenders of the Spirit of Christ in the apostacy from it since the dayes of the Apostles as your fruits declare your names and Images So I confesse to you it is the ancientest form that hath been since the dayes of the Apostles but had I never known the Papists nor none of these Sectaries we had know● truth We came not through the Popes channels but are come to that which all Apostates ravened from and so you your selves must be put to silence and your mouths stopped which are the evill beasts that tears one another worse then the common beasts which the Apostles speak of which was coming up before his decease How are you learning one another about your meat and husks and worships and images and helps and Teachers and Scriptures which was not the work of them that gave it forth with your horns And how many Images have you upon you and names and marks and what are all these Images and marks but the marks and Images of the beast which is risen since the days of the Apostles Whereas thou Queriest what be all these but sect as Independents Anabaptists and other Sectaries which sayest thou was first of the Church of Rome and thou s●yest the Church of Rome cannot be said to be sectaries because it hath been constant since the dayes of the Apostles and all Sectaries springed from it and not you from them Answ. The Roman Church was the first made up of Hereticks Schismaticks and Apostates and Reprobates and Antichrists and false Prophets which Christ said should come Matth. 7. and John said was come and as you may read in Timothy and Titus Reprobate from the faith and erred from the faith and had the form of godlinesse and denyed the power and kept the form and as John said was come and they went after Idols before his decease and he writ to the little children to keep themselves from Idols And Jude saw them crept up before they were aware which went in Corah's Balaams and Cains way that were Murtherers And are not you Murtherers that murther one another as Cain about his sacrifice And Jude saw they turned the grace of God into wantonnesse which should be their teacher and salvation So all these self-separations Apostates Reprobates which went after the doctrine of Devils and forbid meats and marriages and the spirit spoke expresly should depart from the faith and ●ll these have made up the Church of Rome and there 's your visible Church held up by Cains weapons Then as for all these Sectaries springed from you you were like to beget no other children but bastards which is but a false conception brought forth by the will of man which is applyed that God got it and fathers it upon God And as for all these Sects which are sprung of you are like no other wayes but like to a Sea and burst into names which went from the spirit of God you are not like to be kept in unity who ravened from the spirit of God the life of Christ and the Apostles was in and to that which you ravened from are people come and coming which stands a-top of you all They that worship God must worship him in spirit which mortifies all sin and corruptions and they that worship God must worship him in truth in that the Devill abode not in To all the Papists upon the Earth TO come out and try their faith and strength without Cains weapons for there was two that did sacrifice and the one killed the other about the sacrifice and whether of these two was excepted can you read your selves and which was the vagabond It 's said that the Pope and the Church of Rome hath the Key and it 's left to them and ye are the keepers of the Key Now if you be keepers of the Key ye are to open to Nations about you and to render a reason of the hope that is in you if the Lord be sanctified in your hearts you will Are you according to the Scriptures Is the practice of your Church according to the Scriptures Is the spirit of the Lord powred upon you and all flesh Doth your sons and your daughters prophesie And if any thing be revealed to another that sits by you and bids another hold his peace that is speaking for you may all prophesie one by one Or are you not like others and the rest of the Sects that will put them in prison and say they have disturbed you and so shew your selves both Reprobates and Hereticks from the Church and the Spirit that the Apostles were in And can you say Christ is in you male and female Or are you not reprobates and say you

hath reigned since the days of the Apostles and whether or no the spirits of people hath not separated from since the dayes of the Apostles which they were in and is not that the cause that all Nations are brought into Sects and heaps and lost their unity with God and the Scriptures with which spirit they learned of God the Father of spirits that gave forth Scripture are you come unto the spirits of just men made perfect to the Church in God the Father the Judge of all What Scripture have you for taking Tythes and where did the Apostles take tythes so that denyed the first Priest-hood and witnessed Christ the sum the change of the Law by which the Priesthood was made And the disannulling of the commandement that gave tythes and are not you transgressors and made your selves transgressors that have set up these things the Apostles threw down And where did the Apostle take tythes and what is the first principle of pure Religion and what is the soul of man And have you not lost the Crosse of Christ which the Scripture saith is the power of God and hath set up Crosse● of wood and stone on the end of your Steeple-houses and do take bread and wine on the day-time which Christ took at night What is the light what is the word what is the Gospel what Scripture have you for sprinkling Infants Are you them that have heard and learned of God which Christ saith them that have heard and learned of God comes to the Son Have you seen the shape of God are you them that God speaks to by his Son who is heir of all things upholding all things by his word and power Is your Church the Church that is in God have you heard of the Father seeing it is written ye shall all be taught of God Are you not them that looks at things that are seen for things that are seen are temporall the things that are not seen are eternall Are not Images Idols Pictures Reliques Bones pieces of Cloath things that are ●een and temporall Answer these Queries in writing and send them to the people who are scornfully called Quakers in England by all the sects of the earth Shall a man whiles he is upon the earth be made free from sin and be made perfect and the body of sin put off And what Scripture have you for consecrating bread and wine and where did the Apostles so Will you try your Church by the Scripture of truth and measure your selves by the Apostles Declaration and venture your selves to be tryed and judged by them that the spirit of truth led them to speak forth And what is the Wine-presse that was troden without the City and whether you bid every man examine himselfe whether Christ be in him except he be a reprobate And whether or no you are as the Apostles who preached Christ in them the hope of glory warning every man that you may present every man perfect in him in Christ Jesus To prove the Papists Church to be a false Church contrary to the Apostles and that they are wolves which Christ said should come which are inwardly ravening Ye have the sheeps cloathing and are the false Prophets that should arise according to Christs words that should shew lying signes wonders which if it were possible should deceive the very elect and should say Loe Christ is here and loe Christ is there Do not you tell people that he is in the bread and that he is in the wine and tell them that he is in the chamber and that he is in the desert where you put the bread and the wine is not there Christ cannot you put him in the cup-board and in the chamber and in the desert cannot you put and tell people he is there And have you not the sheeps cloathing but are you not ravening wolves inwardly ravening from the spirit of God So doth not your fruits appear contrary to the Church of God For have not you fulfilled the Scriptures having the sheeps cloathing but inwardly are the ravening wolves Have not you ravened wearied and destroyed and killed many hundreds and have you not your holes and Gaols which you call Inquisitions which you put them in are you like the Church in this Did ever Lambs and the sheep weary and tear them to pieces and then carry them into dens and make wracks and tortures for poor creatures or for the wolves either Did ever the sheep destroy the wolves Now which doth your fruits make you appear to be the sheep or the wolves judge your selves by the Scriptures Now let all people judge you all that be in the wolvish nature that are not sheep no more then you So Christ calls them wolves inwardly ravening from the spirit of God these Christ said should come and they have come up since the dayes that Christ said they should come And the Apostle saith in Acts 20. That after his departure grievous wolves should enter in among them not sparing the flocke which should arise from among themselves speaking perverse things drawing many Disciples after them Now have not you Papists risen since the dayes of the Apostles and you know the Apostles did not prison persecute devour any but the wolves should do it Now these rise among the Saints that should not spare the flock mark make havock of the flock to devour and destroy the flock Now we remember that Christ told of you and of these things and the Apostle tells of these things 1 John 2. said it was the last time then Whereas they had heard that Antichrist should come even now there are many Antichrists and false prophets come into the world 2 Cor. 11.13 14 15. Paul speaking there of cutting off occasion For as much as false prophets deceitful workers transforming themselves into the Apostles of Christ no marvel for Satan himself transformed himselfe and his Ministers transforming as the Ministers of righteousness Now this the Apostle saw come up among the Corinthians before his decease So now again you may see Satans Ministers they are murtherers and his Angels they are murtherers Now the Apostle said he out off the occasion he did not cut off the outward bodies of people as you do and the Apostles were persecuted whipped and beat now you see that you are whippers persecutors and beaters and though you persecute one another which have the name of Christians yet are not the sheep nor the Ministers or true Apostles nor the true Church And when the true Ministers and Apostles saw that these false Apostles should come and Ministers of Satan should tran●form themselves into Angels of light he brings them to the light that shined in their hearts them that would give them the knowledge of God in the face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 4. And are not you as bad as the Jews who killed the Lord Jesus Christ and their own Prophets who kill the Prophets that are sent among you 2 Thes. 2. And

Woman fled into the Wilderness and the man-child caught up to God and the Dragon made war with the seed and the Beast hath power from the Dragon which kills the Saints now where is your Church where hath the true Church been now where is the faith and patience of the Saints He which kills with the sword must be killed with the sword him that hath an ear let him hear the Dragon the Beast out of the Sea out of the Earth these are Scriptures the Beast out of the Earth his miracles his Images now here is your Church apostatized from the Apostles from John from the Woman from the Saints from the man-child caught up to God so the Beast hath had his authority and power that killed the Saints from the Dragon and the man-child caught up to God the Woman fled into the Wilderness and hath had his power and authority over all tongues People and Nations who hath deceived the Nations because of your miracles and yet the tongues your Orthodox men wch you call the original which the Beast hath power over will tell the people that the false Prophets are come but now the 7. Mathew but now is the seven vials coming upon the Beast and his names and them that vvorship him for all these names in the vvhole Christendom is the Beasts names not the Saints but by reproach and now are the Reapers going forth vvith their sickle and are calling people from the vvorship of the Beast and his Image vvho had his seal to deceive them that dvvell upon the Earth the spirits of Devils vvorking miracles vvhich goes forth to the Kings of the Earth in the vvhole Earth to gather them to battel against the great day of the Lord God Almighty and blessed is he that keepeth his garment clean and the great Whore Mistery Babylon sits upon the Beast vvhose povver vvas from the Dragon vvhich all the World should vvorship but vvho hath their names vvritten in the Book of life and so she sits upon the beast in his several colours vvhich all Nations of the earth hath drunk of her cup committed fornication with her there the Woman is called the Church now here is your Church and she sits upon the waters and the waters are People Nations multitudes and tongues and she hath corrupted the Earth and made the inhabitants of the Earth drunk and the Kings of the Earth hath drunk of her cup and committed fornication with her but where hath been your Church all this time when the multitude are waters and Nations and tongues are waters and the Whore hath sat upon them all and the inhabitans of the Earth is drunk and she hath drunk the blood of the Martyrs and the blood of the Prophets and of the Saints now if Prophets blood be drunk and the Saints and Martyrs blood be drunk where is the true Church now and if the Prophets and Saints blood be drunk and the Woman fled into the Wilderness now where hath the true Church been Now again the Lamb and the Saints shall have victory the fall of Babylon shall be known the judgements of the great Whore is come and she shall be rewarded double as she hath rewarded The Beast the false Prophets the Kings of the earth shall make war with the Saints but again the Lamb and the Saints shall get victory who shall kill with the sword slay with the sword which is the words of his mouth the Beast shall be taken with him the false Prophet the old Dragon and be cast alive into the lake of fire Now here was the Lambs weapons and Saints killing and slaying with the sword which is the word of his mouth but their weapons is fire faggot inquisition torturing hanging drawing and quartering about your Religion about your worship that which your faith stands in which is proved to be Cains and not Abels the Keeper of Sheep for the Lamb and the Saints shall have the victory and the holy Prophets shall have power over you whom the beast hath had power over whom you have worshipped and the Whore hath set upon all tongues and kindreds and Nations and the everlasting Gospel shall be preached to them that dwell upon the earth to all tongues people and Nations that dwell upon the earth and so your Church hath been made up of false Prophets inwardly ravening Wolves and the grievous Wolves not sparing the flock and that come in after the Apostles departure that rose up among them that had the Sheeps clothing Math. 7. and 24. Acts 20. And your Church is made up of Hereticks which the Apostle speaks of that served not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellies which caused devisions which had the good words and fair speeches which deceived the hearts of the simple Romans 16. And your Church is made up of false Apostles Satans Ministers Satans messengers transforming themselves as the true messengers Ministers and Apostles your Church is made up of such who forbids marriages and meats which the Apostle said should come and so in the Devils doctrines as 1 Timoth. 4. and 2 Corinth 11. and so are not built upon the true foundation of the Prophets and Apostles and Christ Jesus who being past feeling who are gone after the vanities of your own minds like Gentiles into Idols Ephes. 5.4 who are the injurious Persons as Paul was in his first estate before conversion when he persecuted who never after conversion did persecute for then he came into the life and substance of what he professed in words before and so your fruits do shew your Church to be made up of injurious Persons persecuting like Saul not converted and yet you he doting about Law and Gosple which you do not know what you affirm and speak of so your Church many of them through Philosophie and rudements below are held up by the Commandments and doctrines of men and feigned and voluntary humility which is your own and usurped authority Jezabel-like so hath forsaken the command of the Lord Jesus Christ and the true Church who said keep from Idols you have made Idols and Images that can neither hear nor see nor go so your Church is to be confounded which trusteth in Idols and Images so not in the true Church of God and your Church is made up of them that kill the Lord Jesus Christ and kill the Prophets and kills the Saints and so fills up the wrath to the utmost which is to come upon you and your Church is made up of such who for the love of money hath erred from the faith and are covetous and will sell Pardons for money your Church is made up of such who be given to blaspheme and so hath lost the godliness in which the Saints increase but you have cankered the People with your images and pictures idols of things below so out of the sober state in the malice hatefull out of the fruits of the true Church but made up of

Is this the love of Christ Is this the love of God Is this the love that was in the Apostles Did the Apostles do so did Christ do so that had all power c. to all that were not of their minde yea or nay answer 6 What differs your works from the works of the Pharisees for that which they did they did to be seen of men And the young man boasted of his works yet when it came that he should have sold all and followed Jesus the beloved of God there was the hard thing whereby he might have had treasure in heaven And how differs your giving almes from the Pharisees seeing the Pharisees were in your state to murther and murthered the just and you give almes and are found in the same nature that will and do murther them that be contrary minded to you wherein do you here differ from the Pharisees And Ch●ist saith love enemies and you have your Inquisitions and Fagots here his love differed from the Pharisees and yours And saith John Let us love in deed not in word not as Cain the wicked one who slew his brother because his works were righteous the others were evill And saith John He that killeth with the sword must perish with the sword here is the faith and patience of the Saints Now where is your patience that are killing and prisonin● And we wrestle not against flesh and blood saith the Apostle but against principalities and powers and spiritual wickednesses in high places How do you wrestle against principalities and powers and spiritual wickednesses in high places Does it not shew that your weapons are carnall and not spiritual while you are prisoning burning making inquisitions for the bodies of people that are contrary to your minde Do not you wrestle against flesh and blood Is not this to wrestle against flesh and blood to prison to burn to kill creatures are not you apostatized from the true Apostles and true Church which is the pillar and ground of truth who said We wrestle not against flesh and blood answer these things by Scripture 7 Do you own the Law and Prophets which is to do as you would be done by would you have all that be contrary to your minde do unto you as you do unto others to make Inquisition● and to burn and to kill them that be contrary to their minde as you have your Inquisitions Fagots Fires for such that be contrary to your minde not observing your customes would you have others do so unto you and serve you so that will not observe your customes Is not to do as you would be done by the Law and the Prophets 8 Did ever Christ or the Apostles give any command that any should be put to death touching worship touching Religion shew me a command in Scripture from Christs or the Apostles mouths Are not they that murther slay and make war the Beast and the false Prophets under the dominion of the mother of Harlots and in the steps of Cain and Jezebel out of the steps of Christ and the Apostles 9 What is will-worship Does any worship God in the spirit truth but who be in that which the Devil is out of Can any being in the spirit and in the truth which the Devil is out of the Murtherer slay any concerning Religion or worship but on the cōtrary if they be in the evil overcome it with good Now if you kill murther slay make Inquisitions burn where is patience where is long suffering where is stopping the mouths of gain-sayers concerning gain saying if you cannot you have a fagot for them or a prison or an Inquisition are you not here like unto them that rose against Stephen that were not able to resist his spirit but stoned him to death wherein differs your nature and spirits from these did Stephen do so to others the Apostles were stoned did they do so to others Now this is Christs command he sent them forth as sheep amongst Wolves he sent out Prophets and Wisemen and said some they should kill and some they should thrust out of their Synagogues some they should persecute from City to City and said they should be hated of all men for his names sake and they should speak all manner of evil of them and were these to do so again to others kill hate hale out of Synagogues persecute Nay did not Christ say love enemies blesse them that curse now are not they that are contrary to this out of this Anti-christs and false Apostles 10. Has not the true Ministery true Spirit true Power true Church the true crosse been lost since the dayes of the Apostles and the false Ministery false Prophets false Apostles Antichrists Synagogues of Satan has appeared since which all your Crosses your names your pictures your Images your praying by beads has come up have not you lost the true spirit the Image of the Father and his name by which men are saved and so since run into other names run into Images lost the true Image run into Crosses lost the true Cross the power of God run into praying by beads and lost the true praying in the spirit and is not the Candle put out within and so ye have set up your lights burning without you defiled the Temple of God within and so set up Temples without are they not set up by that which defiles the inward Temple and is not that it which will murther slay prison and bring before Inquisitions which defiles the Temple of God seeing they that witnessed the Temple of God said love enemies and does not it shew that the love of God was there if love enemies which was a command of Christ who are them that are to be persecuted and hated and who are they that you are to slay and kill answer 11 Have you heard the voyce of God immediately from heaven as the Prophets Apostles did have you the same spirit wch Christ and the Apostles had which gave forth the Scriptures which was before they were given forth yea or nay 12. Is that the blood of Christ that is your wine which was shed upon the Cross when Christ was crucified alter you have consecrated it 13. Is that the body of Christ that is your bread after you have consecrated that said Lo a body hast thou prepared me to do the will of God and will not your bread corrupt and let it lye after you have consecrated it and does the body the flesh of Christ see corruption answer 14. What is the ground and cause of all the destractions amongst the called Christians is it not because they have the words of Christ the Prophets and Apostles but be cut of the life of them 15. What is that thing wch four men do carry on staves that all men must bow before it when you carry it in the streets and what do you do it for and where did Christ or the Apostels do any such thing 16. Why do