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spirit_n	flesh_n	law_n	life_n	8,185	5	5.2684	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26198	The schoolmaster disciplin'd, or, A reply to a lying paper, entitull'd, The gadding tribe reproved, put foeth [sic] under the name of George Willington ... also, An answer to a scandalous paper, put forth by William Prynne, entitulled The Quakers unmasked ... : whereunto is added A reply to an additional paper, put forth by William Prynne, in his lying, inlarged edition of his scandalous paper aforementioned ... / by John Audland.	Audland, John, 1630-1664.	1655 (1655)	Wing A4197; ESTC R23357	14,236	15

Lord and reads thy book wil avoid thee and it and have no fellowship with such unfruitful workers and works of Darkness thou hast forgotten judge not and thou hypocrite first cast out the beam thy envious Spirit which fomes like the sea casting up filth swells beyond its bounds but thou art limited as all thy impious generation have been and by the power of the Lord are we preserved from thy errors and hellish blasphemy and thy railing and slandering return upon thy felt fruitless tree upon which no grapes is gathered Thou sayest what Paul said to the Galatians the same thou wilt say to the giddy headed people of the Church of England Reply The true Church is in God builded upon the true rock and is not giddy-headded here thou manifests the fruits of the Teachers who so long hath taught and had so much for teaching and the Church of England yet giddy-headded but the Lord is comming to gather his people into the true Fold from the mouths of all Idol Shepheards and to teach his people himself that they may be established in righteousness Thou sayest Paul taught the Romanes and in them us first that it is the imputed Righteousness of Christ onely that makes us just in the sight of God Secondly that our election is of Gods free Grace Thirdly that we are justified only by faith in the sight of God without good works fourthly that the scriptures is of divine authority Reply Silence flesh before the Lord upon the children of disobedience shall the wrath of God be revealed own thy Portion what Paul said to such as thee thou must witness a change before that which Paul wrote to the Romanes be to thy condition the Lord is our righteousness and our justification and by his grace we are saved who hath elected us and chosen us in Christ Jesus who hath all power and authority committed unto him and upon whose shoulders the government is laid but from thy earthly wisdom is the election and the faith hid who art without good works and belyes the Apostle and ignorant art of the Letter which kils Fiftly Thou sayest no man since the fall of Adam can perfectly fulfil the Law of God in this Life and therefore cannot merit except it be wrath Reply For meriting the wrath it s thy own but Christ Jesus since the fall of Adam hath perfectly fulfilled the Law of God and there is Salvation in no other and the righteousness of the Law is fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit but by the works of the Law no flesh shall be justified for the Commandment which was ordained unto life wrought death if thou can hear thou may In thy sixt and seventh thou saist that he that hath received a Ministry should wait on his Ministry and take heed to fulfil it and that every soul must be subject to the higher power and yeild obedience to every Ordinance of theirs if not contrary to Gods word Reply Thou slanders us and rails upon us who hath received a Ministry from God waits to fulfil it and thou receives such as come in their own name who are made by the wil of man against such do we bear witness by the power of God unto which our souls is subject for conscience sake and to every ordinance for the Lords sake which is not contrary to Gods word Thou sayest thou art afraid that the Lord hath a controversie with the Church of England Reply Fearfulness surprizeth the heart of the hypocrite and a controversie hath the Lord with you because of your iniquities misery is coming upon you fearful ones and unbelievers who are no Church of Christ but a Synagogue of Satan who say they are Iews and are not but are a giddy-headed Church as thou confessest Thou sayest Make not the light within a rule to walk by and yet saith sollow the light within and teacher within what else Reply The light discovers thee to be in confusion they that walk in the light stumbles not and they who love the Light bring their deeds to it and believes in the light but their deeds are evil who ha●e it and walk not in it and there is thy condemnation Thou sayest He that entreth not in by the door to wit a true and lawful call but climbeth up some other way the same is a thief and a robber and such are the quakers but he that entreth in by the door is the shepherd of the Sheep and such are your ancient Divine● Reply Here thou as in other places art a false accuser and a perverter of the Scriptures your Divines is not the Shepheard there thou art a blasphemer who would set up fal●e Christs the true Shepheard laid down his life for the sheep and he is the door and them whom thou slanderest enters in at the door where no thief nor no diviner can enter nor no hireling which the true Shepheard cryed against And as thou sayest Thou will speak something to our principles first for judging Reply Thou hast judged us to be deceivers and seducers and false accusations against the truth thou hast brought and against some in particular naming that Iohn Audland was a child of the Devil and yet thou hast confessed thou never saw me nor heard me but thou hast not proved wherein which I charge thee to do publikely or own thy condemnation for thy slandring lying and backbiting thy laying that it is so doth not make it to be so and that which thou cals a confutation confutes thyself but proves nothing against the Saints judging them whom they saw and discerned to be unlearned for when an unbeliever came in or one that was unlearned he was judged of all and the thoughts of his heart made manifest and this honor have all the Saints to bind Kings in chains and to execute upon the heathen all the judgments written and the Scripture we own and the Saints life by which thou art judged and with the light condemned who judgest and acts against the Saints with that mind that is for judgment The second is that they are not true Ministers which are called by mans Ministery or by a mediate call from man and this thou goest about to confute by saying that Christ ordained apostles and disciples And the Holy Ghost said Seperate me Barnabas and Saul for the work of the Ministry and that there was Elders ordained in the Church and the like Reply These things proves nothing to thy mediate cal or mans Ministery Christ is not born by the wil of man and holy men spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost and no prophesie came by the will of man Paul a Minister and Apostle not by the will of man and that which is highly esteemed amongst men is abomination in the sight of God and there is thy mediate call and mans ministery which the Scriptures speaks not of what Christ did and the Saints did was by the power of

and confess thy deceipt and call in thy filthy paper and take shame to thy self for know this that the Lord God wil plead with thee for all thy hard speeches and justly by him shalt thou be rewarded and we utterly deny and do bear witness against all such filthy waies and practises of all such Frogs as thou mentions and against thee who prints lyes as I have already proved and lyars must be cast into the Lake and here I have found thee and proved thee in the intoxicated giddy headed condition thou speaks of who art already deceived and need be deceived no farther and thou art fallen into the pit thou digged and they for whom thy not was spread being innocent are escaped and thy folly is unmasked and thou art clearly betected and proved to be in error in thy very foundation and so all thy building is made void and if thou cannot begin upon better evidence let thy mouth for ever be stoyyd and let shame cover thy lips and repent of the evil of thy wayes lest the wrath of the Lord break out against thee and there be no remedy to the Light in thy conscience I speak and remember that thou art warned Friend thy Spirit is savoured and tryed and now this is the end of thy zeal who art become a persecutor of the life which thou hast professed in words and now thy zeal appears without the knowledge of God for the Jesuits Romish Fryers and Frogs as thou calls them are in the same nature as thou art in against that people whom thou scornfully calls quakers and so there is many unfavoury speeches in thy Paper putforth by thee VVilliam Prynne which worth the mentioning are not but thou hast manifested the end of thy P●o●ession who appears now to be one of those giddy headded English men thou speaks of and as touching leading silly women Captive laden with sin and led away with divers lusts ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth to thee this home shall return who appears to be in this state learning alwaies and silly for how many years hast thou been learning and now doest resist the truth with thy unclean Spirit as Iannes and Iambers did the Children of Israel which was comming out of Egypt with their corrupt Spirits so with what Measure thou measurest it shall be measured to thee again good weight running over pressed down and friend in the day of thy calamity remember whom thou hast despised in the day of thy prosperity and what thou hast rejected with thy ful Stomack and now loathes the Honny-Comb and the precious and the vile chus●th and so one with the Harlot art become the light doth thee comprehend thou saist there was trembling or quaking in the hoast in the field among all the people the garrisons and the spoylers they also trembled so it was a very great trembling or quaking this for thy selfe shal stand when thou thy self canst read a spoyler and see thy self in the field the strong man that must bow himself and thy fenced Cities must be broken down and thy Garr●son with all thy carnall weopons then the hoast shal thee fail and then trembling and quaking wil not be despised which stands with a put ful compassion to all souls and quaking and trembling doth not despise for thou unmasked thy self in this paper hast to be a scorner and scoffer at Gods righteous seed which he upholds with his arm for which thou shalt give an account to the light in thy conscience which changes not is it spoken And whereas thou William Prynne saith that Coppinger confessed that he spake about thirty times at London among them called quakers it is false he did not speak amongst us who are so called but them that have spoken amongst us their names we know and so we whose names are subscribed bear witness against that untruth thou hast published in print Amors Toddert Simon Dring John Bolton William Creake Gervase Roberts Henry Clerke Robert Dring William Kaymond Richard Davies William West A Reply to an Additional Paper put forth by William Prynne in his Lying Enlarged Edition FRiend thou pretending a reply to that which is before printed in a paper put forth by thee bearing the same title which thou saith is the second Edition enlarged to thee I shal reply that the things which I proved stands good and not detected by thee but thou art clearly detected and proved to make a lye thy foundation and now in thy lying enlarged Edition thou hast gathered up more lyes sent them abroad into the world ful of venome thou art spawned from the Serpent crawling in the mire like the frogs thou peaks of casting up thy filth and foming like the Sea and when thou hast gathered up a heap of lyes together thou wouldst cast them upon the children of light wwo in scorn are called quakers who denyes thee among the rest of the Roman● vermine giddy-headded brain-sick generation and were thou not blinde thou would not utter forth such confusion Babylon is thy habitation the destruction of thy City is ha tningapace Misery and lamentation from the Lord God is comming upon you the burthensome stone wil grind you to pieces Thou saith the chiefe exception is against Cowlishaw his Oath is untrue for sayest thou though we were in Bristol and went to two meetings yet that was unknown to Cowlishaw Reply Here thou hast confessed that the oath is untrue in that he sware the thing he knew not which thing proves contrary to what he sware and and this again p●oves thy foundation false who faith we had not been at Bristol and sware the thing he knew not as is before expressed Thou sayest we spoke to those people then not under the notion of quakers but onely of Anabaptists and Independants Reply This is false lye to lye thou ads take them away and thy refuge is gone we did not speak to them as Anaba●tists or as Independants and this many of the people wil witness for us and against thee and there was several in that City that knew us to be of those people that were called quakers which proves another lye upon thee Thou saist when the meetings was in September we began to take upon us the name and title of quakers and that those meetings was after Cowlishaws conference with Coppinger who adds that about eighteen dayes after Reply Thy covering is too narrow by the Light thou art discovered for the information faith it was in September and then were we in Bristol and the words about eighteen dayes after which 〈◊〉 proves the th●ng false we being at Bristol then at those publike meetings before mentioned and that we began to take upon us the title of quakers then is false and with such filthy stuff thou makes up thy enlarged Edition Thou saith this convinceth Audland of a slander and doube ly First in accusing Cowl●shaw for making a false oath which his