evil taught quakers should do And now concerning David behold he saith Behold thou desirest truth in the inward parts and in the inward part thou shalt make me to know wisdom Psal 51.6 And this again unseparably sets forth to view an outward unteachable part to be in the same man even at one and the same time in Gods estimation And now observe how boldly and stoutly the Prophet David stood it out even with God in defending and justifying the perfection of his integrity in his inward man or minde where he dares to say even to God himelf Search me O God and know my heart try me and know my thoughts Psal 139.23 Nay see how deeply he ventuers yet further in defending the soundness of his integrity in his inward man where he boldly called upon God saying Judge me note this Judge me O Lord for I have walked in mine integrity Psal 26.1 And now who would have thought that this holy David would have cried peccavi but yet behold notwithstanding that his great height of boldness with God to defend and justifie the perfection and soundness of his integrity in his inward man or minde yet he as it were condemns his person as having in it sin in his outward man or flesh or in this respect he changes his tune and now becomes an humble Suitor to God to pardon and forgive his sins very often in the Psalms and he lamentably entreats and though in the first respect he boldly called upon God to judge him yet in respect of his justifying his person to be free from sin in it he humbly entreats the Lord not to judge him saying Enter not into judgement with thy servant for in thy sight shall no man living be justified Psal 143.2 then he could not be justified by and in himself at any time whilst he was a living man upon the earth and this he therein confesseth in full effect and yet you quakers are not ashamed not onely to say That the Prophet David was free from sin or was perfect in the time when he lived upon the earth but also luciferian-like to affirm in full effect that you are free from sin in you in your inward and outward man both though these holy Saints acknowledge the flat contrary which you unruly quakers should also do And for St. Paul his acknowledgement is so large that there is in a true Believer an obedient inward man and a rebellious outward man that I shall need only to intreat my Reader to peruse Rom. 7. chap. And thus we finde out the cause why the holy Saints that are born of God do acknowledge themselves to be ungodly and the ground also from which St. Paul doth so highly advance his Faith that believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly in Rom. 4 5 is hereby cleerly discovered And now again if you can possibly wipe your quakish eyes to any good effect here you may see God's blessed people why do you seek the living amongst the dead Here here you quakers here are they that keep the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus also Rev. 14.12 that are so highly commended of God therein for their so doing though you quakers keep neither of them both Here you quakers are they that though they see that they do through the infirmity of their flesh break the commandments of their God in their outward man yet they with St. Paul Rom. 7.25 do serve the Law of God and so keep the Commandments of God in their inward man or Spirit of their minde and do also in their inward man keep the Faith of Jesus to be justified thereby onely from the transgressions that like a conquered malicious thief still remaining in their outward man continually rebelling against the law of their minde or inward man Here here you quakers is the patience of the Saints commended in Rev. 14.12 though your quakers aspiring spirit will not stoop so low as to endure that the Saints holy warfare upon the earth But therefore know all you quakers that when St. Paul prayed thrice that the thorne or sin in his flesh might depart from him if God had taken that away from him and so consequently from all his Saints then all they with St. Paul had been thereby exalted above measure even as it appears manifestly by you that you quakers do exalt your selves to a Christhood diabollically far above measure by your vainly conceiting that the thorne or sin in your flesh is totally taken from you and not onely so but God had also thereby destroyed the transcendent glory of of his Gospel-free-grace granted by his especial grace to men in and by Christ for Gospel-relief even ever since Adam's legal fall but you may see that God would not grant that though it was a threefold humble Petition of his choice vessel St. Paul but onely for his comfort God then told him that his grace was sufficient for him God therewith acquainting him that his strength is made perfect in weakness all which is shewed in full effect in 2 Cor. 12.7 8 9. And thus in one answer he sheweth us how he both preserved St. Paul and doth preserve all his Saints from being exalted above measure as you quakers extremely are And also God by that thorne sin and helpful afflictions not taken away from the Saints doth preserve the glory of his Gospel free-grace to himself as most due is which is even by all men heartily to be alwayes acknowledged but you quakers whilst being quakers so exalted above measure cannot possibly taste of this sweet Gospel-cup of God's salvation by him freely set forth in Christ his Son by his death and precious blood shed without your quakers or any other mens bodies whatsoever And now whatsoever the lofty self-Christed quakers will do or will not do yet let us beloved take yet further notice of the precious esteem which God doth fasten on all such people which are free from guile and hypocrisie in their integrity in their inward man though through the infirmity of their flesh and strength of temptation there mâ—y be some sin found in their outward man which sin they do not with St. Paul consent to nor approve in their inner man but do even hate the same which estimation is by God inspiredly recorded in John 1.47 Psal 34.17 Prov. 11.1 1 Thes 2.3 1 Pet. 3.19 Prov. 19.1 James 3.17 Psal 51.8 and in divers other places and yet you self-proved notorious sinning quakers which largely and truely appears in this Treatise are so boldned in impudency that you dare to say in full effect that all the Holy Saints aforesaid and all such humble-confessing Saints by their so fully and truly acknowledging that they had sin in them even when they were born of God were not onely teachers of a delusion but also of a great delusion of the Devil to maintain the Devil's Kingdom Oh fearful But behold my beloved that all this already said doth not discover the full height of
and he also sheweth us what kinde of Faith it was which he even at the very time of the finishing of his course onely gloried in and that his faith was not a believing on him that justifieth no man but such men that are free from all sin in them and so are perfectly and inherently godly men no not so neither but on the direct contrary he sheweth to us and you quakers also that his saith was his believing on him that justifieth the ungodly whose faith is counted to him for righteousness Rom. 4.5 he thereby plainly declaring that though he had sin him in his outward man or flesh even at the very time of his finishing his course yet that his faith in his inward man was even at that very time his righteousness with God by Christ and accordingly he even then gloried onely in this that by his fighting a good fight he had kept the faith even at his finishing his course and agreeable thereto the whole scope of his Gospel is the advancing of mens faith in Christ's precious blood shed without them and his totally excluding works from mens justification And hereby it is firmly proved that St Paul was not free from sin in him at the very finishng his course And as these two examples of St. David and St. Paul do set forth the true conditions of all Saints whilst they are living on earth so it again proveth that you quakers are satanical decieving lyers And whereas I do finde that James Nayler hath laid his foul fingers of quakery upon the undefiled truth of that verse Rom. 4 5. I shall wash off that soyl God willing at some other time And now to shew you quakers whom I finde to be groping in the dark the eyes of your understandings being darkened and dazeled with your inward great quakish light you boast of what is the true cause next under the devil himself your teacher why you quakers do so frantickly and wildely straggle quite away from the truth of the Scripture which is first because you frequently affirm that the Scriptures are not your Rule and truly in this I do verily believe you for I do finde it to be even so In the second place that though God hath inspiredly declared in his Scriptures that there is an inward and outward man in one and the same man in Gods account and estimation yet you are trayld away from this true Scripture-distinction so far that by your quakish Doctrine you do vainly conclude That if any man be free from the guilt of sin in God's Gospel-account that that man even upon necessity must be totally free from all tincture of the pollution of sin in him both in his inward man or minde and in his outward man or flesh also which is directly contrary to the Scriptures for St. Paul saith I delight in the law of God after the inward man Rom. 7.22 which saying of his doth unseperably set forth that there was even at that very time an outward man comprehended in St. Paul's person which he calls his members vers 23. his flesh vers 25. more cleerly to set forth his distinction he further saith With the minde I my selfe serve the law of God but with the flesh the law of sin vers 23. and he yet further cleereth this distinction where he twice affirmeth If I do that I would not it is no more I that do it but sin dwelleth in me vers 16. and vers 20. and it 's already proved that St. Paul was not free from sin in him no not at the finishing of his course And therewith he doth cleerly shew That as in him so in all other Gospel-believers an inward man or spirit of the minde wherewith and wherein they serve the Law of God as St. Paul did Rom. 7.25 without guil and hypocrisie in their integrity and this St. Paul owned to be in himself which inward man so acting is esteemed of God to be the man or that he which is born of God in every true Gospel-believers person which sinneth not neither indeed can sin in that sin which is unâ—o death though thorow the strength of temptations working upon the infirmity of their outward man or flesh there may be some sin that is not unto death sound in their persons all which St. John who was born of God yet even then acknowledgeth himself to be amongst other Saints one sinner 1 John 1.8 onely he distinguisheth betwixt that sin which is not unto death in which even that person who is born of God in his inward man may probably through infirmity be found sinning in his outward man and that sin which St. John intimates is against the holy Ghost which is unto death which he that is born of God neither doth nor can sin because he is born of God all which truths St. Iohn sheweth in full effect in 1 Ioh. 3.9 and more fully in 1 Ioh. 5.16 17 18. but the quakers Tutor will not permit them to see the Truth But St. Paul yet further confirmeth his distinction aforesaid where he saith in plain and full effect That with his outward man or flesh he served the law of sin Rom 7.25 and this his outward man or flesh though it was even then a part of his own person yet he owned it not to be himself for he brands that his outward man or flesh to be another law in his members flesh or outward man warring against the law of his minde v. 23. which his inner man or minde he owneth to be himself v. 25. that sinned not And now behold you quakers how amongst others these three holy and with God highly esteemed Saintâ— Job David and Paul do accordingly yet further confirm this Scripture-distinction unanimously together Behold I say how stifly stoutly and boldly that holy man Job stood it out even with God himself to justifie himself in his inner man to be perfectly without guile in his integrity he desiring in that respect saying Let me be weighed in an even ballance that God may know mine integrity Job 31.6 and yet notwithstanding all this height of his boldness to justifie himself in his inner mans perfection in his integrity yet he durst not in the least measure stand to justifie himself to be free from sin in his outward man but on the flat contrary he as it were mournfully said If I justifie my self mine own mouth will condemn me if I say I am perfect it will prove me per verse Job 9.20 see also the 30 and 31 verses therein No no though he so boldly stood it out even with God to justifie the perfection of his integrity of his inward man yet he as it were cries out against the imperfection that was even then in his outward man and in this respect he soars up upon the wings of his faith and flies quite out of himself to rest in his Redeemer onely he then saying I know that my redeemer liveth c Iob 19.25 and even so you
would with the Dâ—vâ—◠〈…〉 God and Christ the Spirit and Light ouâ— of the World and that he should no more dwell in his people till dooms-day but it is plain to the flat contrary That T. M. in that his book out of which he is charged saith in page 39. That the Majesty of God whose Throne is in Heaven is in his Inspections Influences and Operations everywhere and in his gracious and spiritual Presence and manifested nighness in and through his Son dwelling in Sion even in the hearts and societies of his people Now note doth Tho. Moor exclude God and Christ Spirit and Light out of the World and out of his people while dooms-day Dâ—â—h not T. M. affirm directly That God in his spiritual Influences is everywhere in the World and by his Spirit dwelling even in the hearts and societies of his people what can we think of these desperate attempts of J.N. against the truth But he must needs go whom the Devil for just causes is appointed to drive and these are but a little sample taken out of his manifold detestable lyes and slanders And again to shew how expresly James Nayler doth prove himself to be a falsifier of Scripture to give but a little Sample of his ample falseness Note That James Nayler in his Satan's Design in pages 20 21. he there speaking of our Saviour's words which he spake to his Disciples James thereto saith He told them also That they should mourn in the time of his absence but he would come again and their mourning should be turned into joy when the man-childe should be born into the world and he citeth to prove these his words Act. 14.8 Joh. 16.19 20 21 22. Joh. 16.16 But there is not in any of them places these his forged words That their mourning should be turned into joy when the man-child should be born into the world though our Saviour shewed them an inferiour simile of that their joy at his appearing again unto them by telling them of a womans joy when she is delivered of a man-child which word man-child as it appears fumeth up into the Quakers distempered brains and causes them to conceit That Christ a Man-child is appeared in them for they do affirm That Christ God and Man Flesh and Spirit is in them I could relate divers of these whimsical forgeries which James hath recorded in his Satan's Design discovered but these are sufficient to give a true rellish of his wickedness for besides his equivocating hypocrisie here are his own three witnesses produced to his face one proving that he is a notorious lyer the second shewing that he is a foul-mouthed envious slanderer and another proving that he is a forger of new and false Scripture all which are his presumptuous sins of his personal fact though his false Doctrine be not at all medled with for a threefold cord is not easily broken And now behold the condemning sentence that James Nayler himself hath passed upon such sinners as he hath proved himself to be which is thus where James Nayler is speaking of Christ Jesus in his book he calls Love to the Lost he saith But who says they know Christ and are redeemed and commits sin not keeping his commands is a lyer and so abides not in the Truth and anoynting and so is of the Devil and not of Christ for he that abides in Christ sins not These be thy words James Nayler but now James take notice how the Devil hath over-ruled thee to publish thine own shame and condemnation in print whereby thou hast rendered up the Quakers and also Quakery it self odious to present and future posterity and first for thy self Iames thou dost pretend in thy tenents That thou dost know Christ and art redeemed and yet thou hast made it appear even against all contradiction whatsoever that thou dost commit notorious sins and so thou dost not keep his commands nor dost abide in Christ for thou sayest that he that abides in Christ sins not but thou James hast made thy sins of thy personal act and fact manifest therefore by thy own mouth thou dost stand condemned to be a lyer and so art of the Devil and not of Christ and considering that you Quakers do refuse the imputation of Christ's righteousness wrought without you to be applied to you as being sinners for your justification Thy judgement is true James that thou art of the Devil and not of Christ and this thy self-condemning law being by thee recorded in print it must stand firm as the Law of the Medes and Persians to remain as an established monument to posterity testifying against wicked James Nayler himself and also against all such Quakers which are found to be sinners And now under my Lord Christ his protection I will try how many such wicked Quakers I can finde out by name not exceeding an ordinary volume for it appears that not onely James Nayler's Law will condemn them all to be of the Devil and not of Christ but also God's Law Exod. 20.16 doth condemn not onely James Nayler but also all such lying slandering Quakers as he hath made himself appear to be for God's Law saith Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour but James Nayler doth even upon his own record bear false witness not onely against man but also against God by his forging new and false Scripture Thus James Nayler hath set himself by a condemned man both by God's and his own Law And now beloved we are to take special notice hereto that James Nayler hath established the grounded Principles of Quakery largely in twenty four several Distinctions in the very self-same book which he calls Love to the Lost in which self-same book he hath firmly proved himself the Teacher of Quakery to be a lyer and of the Devil and not of Christ even at that time when he declared in print the Grounds and Principles of Quakery And this being well considered of what hope or expectation can there be in the least measure that any Doctrine can proceed from him that hath so firmly proved himself to be a lyer and of the Devil and not of Christ even at the same time and in the very same book wherein he teacheth the grounded Principles of Quakery but devilish Doctrine I say again what Doctrine can any manner of ways be expected to proceed from such a self-proved devilishfied man then devilish Doctrine And note also herewith That the same Principles of Quakery which James Nayler taught even when he proved himself to be a lyer and no abider in the truth and so is of the devil and not of Christ are received and taught by all right Quakers as if they were divine Oracles of God All which also proveth clearly against all contradiction That if the Quakers possibly could and would forsake their Practice in personal sins yet if they do not also therewith totally forsake their Doctrine of Quakery which is before proved to flow forth of a devilish
deceitful Tutor hath given you the slip again and hath enforced your own tongues to betray you again and to publish your own perpetual shame for by that your saying you do acknowledge in full effect with James Parnel your brother quaker aforesaid That your own confessing and forsaking your sins if you did so are and can be no other but your own meritorious works or fruits meriting and deserving mercy for you said That by their confessing and forsaking their sin they found mercy And thus you again tender up the aforenamed ten principal quakers to be dissembling equivocating hypocrits by your affirming as being ing quakers That salvation cannot be merited by works but the devil leaves you not here neither but by that your affirmation he hath enforced you quakers most shamefully to pervert that inspired holy Scripture Prov. 28.13 for you over-stare Solomon's ground first laid for that his affirmation he first teaching men how to honour God in a right manner saying Honour the Lord thy God with thy substance and with the first fruits of thine encrease Prov. 3.9 hereby letting us know That God is not honoured except a man do first perform his Gospel-duties by God at that time established by mens obediently offering up to him typical sacrifices and oblations out of mens substance and first fruits of their encrease then typifying Christ to be sacrificed and his blood to be shed And it appears that if men then did not at first not only confess but also forsake their supreme sin against the Gospel of Grace and then obediently offer up to God in the very manner by him prescribed sacrifices oblations and offerings then typifying Christ to be offered up to God his Father and to be sacrificed for mens sins that that man neglecting that Gospel-duty was to be cut off from amongst his people according to Lev. 17.8 9. and they were also to bear their iniquity still Lev. 7.18 whatsoever their confessing and forsaking their other legal sins were And thus is proved that you quakers by your refusing the Gospel-imputation of the vertues of Christ lifted up and sacrificed without you for your sins as those typical sacrifices and Moses typically lifting up the brazen Serpent in the wilderness were all performed without men for mens healing And by your wilful persisting in the supreme Gospel-sin aforesaid you quakers confiding in your own meritorious confessing and forsaking your sin if in truth you do so as in truth you do not yet even by that performance you have cut your selves off from amongst God's people and whatsoeuer you fantastically fancy to the contrary you do bear your iniquities still even in your own self-Christed condition and by Scripture all legal exhortations in Scripture are to be subjected under the aforesaid supreme Gospel-sence for without mens confiding in the Gospel-Faith in Christ's blood shed all the quakers-Christs and all the quakers or any other man's Reformation is in Gods sight no other but noysome deformation for God himself inspiredly tells us plainly That without shedding of blood is no remission Heb. 9.22 you quakers And you quakers say That your man Christ in you is spiritual and a Spirit cannot die nor have his blood shed as when our Saviour's person was spirituallized in by and at his Resurrection it was impossible for him to die or have his blood to be shed again see Rom. 6.9 the vertues of which his blood shed you having desperately refused for your justification you having made it appear That your supposed Man Christ in you cannot possibly have his blood shed in you for your sins acted by you both before and more presumptiously now in your self Christed-quakery so that you have neither the vertues of Christ's real bloodshed without you nor within you to appear for your justification and therefore you cannot possibly confide in the vertues of any blood shed And thus you have again firmly staked down your luciferian Christs to be justified only by your own Popish works in your own confessing your legal sins and your supposed meritorious forsaking them and thereby you have rendred up again the forenamed ten quakers to be dissembling equivocating hypocrites for behold you quakers if you have but one corner of a seeing eye left you to look out of your selves by what God inspiredly saith in his Scriptures which you frequently acknowledge are true see I say how highly God doth by them advance Christ's death and bloodshed and doth totally exclude works whether wrought by men or by any spirit in men whatsoever for mens justification in Rom. 3.24 25. Or secondly for the forgiveness of mens sins Ephes 1.7 Or thirdly for the doctrinal foundation of mens faith see Ephes 2.8 Or fourthly for mens reconciliation to God see Rom. 5.10 Col. 1.19 Or fifthly for mens Redemption see Ephes 1.7 1 Pet. 1.13 Or sixthy for the onely way for mens encouragement to enter by Faith even into the holy place before God Heb. 10.19 All which places and very many more such are fastned to mens faith in Christ's death and blood shed without men and they are all confirmed by that grand Scripture-principle That without shedding of blood is no remission Heb. 9.22 and works are totally excluded Blood is blood you quakers and works are works but they are not Christ's is blood And yet you high-flown quaking Christs are so stifned in impudency that you are not ashamed to establish your Christed indignity by popish meritorious works and yet desperately to face it out and in full effect calling the living God of heaven and earth to testifie for you that you mean no such matter But know you quakers That though it is written Work out your own salvation Phil. 2.12 yet the Apostle in the very next Chapter sheweth how they should work that out he telling them that they were to work or strive for the Faith of the Gospel Phil. 1.27 through Faith in Christ's blood Rom. 3.25 but not of works Ephes 2.8 And beloved the quakers choice principle being That every believer is justified by Christ alone without Imputation There is in this also included That as Christ himself hath authority to execute judgement because he is the Son of man John 5.27 and so hath power to forgive sins on earth Matth. 9.6 that so every quaker Christ man or woman must upon necessity conclude that they have authority to judge and justifie their own particular persons to be as free from all sin in them as Christ himself is and thereby they justifie themselves to be Christ for they refuse any Christ to be without them to judge and justifie them And thus that dark speech aforesaid comes forth cleered shewing how and by what authority every believer to wit every believing quaker do justifie themselves and so every such believer is justified by a self-quaker-Christ alone without any imputation which being done then there is a quakers self-constituted Christ holy and perfect in all respects inherently without any additional imputation of
the quakers malicious iniquity for in that their speech aforesaid they have in a high manner blasphemously seized upon the Holy Ghost himself also for they in that their speech have in full effect charged upon the Holy Ghost that he is the chiefest supreme Teacher not onely of a delusion but also of a great delusion of the Devil to maintain the Devils Kingdom by his the Holy Ghosts inspiring and thereby teaching all the Holy Saints aforesaid and all other such so humbly and faithfully to acknowledge that they had sin in them even when they were born of God and by his inspiredly teaching them to affirm that there is no man that sinneth not 1 King 8.46 2 Cor. 6.36 and also that there is not a just man upon earth that doth good and sinneth not Eccles 7.20 And now this their fearful blasphemy against the Holy Ghost himself being considered on and how fearfully the quakers I say the quakers because it is evident that they do highly esteem of that blasphemous book of James Parnel's now considering that therein they have also fearfully blasphemed against the Holy Ghosts teachings in the Scriptures they in full effect counting those Gospel-Scriptures not to be fitted by the Holy Ghost for any mans benefit but for the devil to take up unâ—â—ered to maintain his the Devils kingdom and also noting that they have therein so horribly blasphemed against the Gospel precious vertues of Christ's death and blood shed and observing that they have audaciously affronted if not blasphemed against the whole Trinity which appears in full effect in my fourth Discourse and considering how they are proved to be of those false Christs and false Prophets shewing false signs and wonders in my tenth Discourse and also considering that they have made it manifest in their Doctrines which are in the Treatise detected That they have trodden under foot the Son of God and do count the blood of the Covenant an unholy thing and that they do despite the Spirit of Grace these being the three marks appropriated to discover the sin against the Holy Ghost which is in full effect shewed in Heb. 10.29 and noting therewith how the quakers have from their own presumptuous wicked personal facts in full effect adjudged themselves to be of the Devil and not of Christ which appears evidently in my second Discourse and considering also that it is very well known that very many of them if not all of them have not onely received the knowledge of the Truth but have also been professors of the same before they were quakers but now they be fallen away from the Truth see how apparently all those destructive marks are found upon them that are mentioned in Heb. 10. from the 26 to the 31 vers It appears by and in all these respects and many other in this Treatise appearing that they the quakers are not onely of the false Christs and false Prophets aforesaid but also they the quakers are acting in the great and unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost and that they so persisting will run themselves unpardonably into the everlasting fearful curses thereto belonging notwithstanding whatsoever they are over-powered to conceit of themselves to the contrary And now thou James Nayler hast stopped thine own mouth from ever again uttering forth such a proud Goliah-like challenge as thou hast done where thou in the 23 pag. of thy Satan's Design discovered sayest And though we be counted the greatest offenders that ever was in the whole world by the heads of Sects yet is there not one of you that is able nor willing to judge us and our practice and judgement with the practice of the Saints in which they walked and plain Scriptures without meanings This is thy haughty challenge Iames. But now do you note That you quakers your own selves have even totally spared your Opposers that labour to judge you by the practice of the Saints which they have walked in for by your undeniable numerous presumptuous sins of your personal facts and false Doctrines you quakers have made it so manifest even against your own selves that you do walk in such notorious presumptuous sins which the Saints practised not which appears fully and truly in this Treatise that there is no need at all no not in the least measure for your Opposers to bring Scriptures neither with meanings nor without meanings to prove that over again which you have already so cleerly and firmly proved against your own selves that you quakers do walk in many notorious wicked practices even in a full affronting direct opposition against and quite contrary to the Saints practice and yet to make more sure work totally to spare your Opposers that labour Satan thy Master James hath exalted thee to be the Judge James in this cause and by thine own and the other quakers notorious presumptious sins though lurking under your outward glistering varnish yet judiciously to condemn thy self James and all them also to be lyers and so not abiders in the truth and so that thou and they also are of the devil and not of Christ which appears by thine own just law James by me related in thine own words in my second Discourse And thus thou thy self James hast made that thy aforesaid vaunting challenge not onely frivilous but ridiculous also And now considering that you sinful quakers do refuse the gracious help of the Gospel imputation I am constrained to leave you all under the justness of your brother quaker James Naylers fiery condemnation aforesaid And as for your thundring out severe charges and threatning fearful curses in print in full effect against all men that do oppose your quakery know all you quakers that I do set them all as light as levity it self even to be as ayry as your quakish legal couzen ing German the Popes roaring bulls and cursings with Bell Book and Candle for in the presence of my God who knoweth the truth hereof I do affirm as is before somewhat touched That he my heavenly Father for my humiliation and instruction hath formerly permitted the Devil to exercise his enthusiasms and seeming heavenly joys and speaking-voyces in me and to work his powerful quakish temptations in me distinctly as it were step by step even in the same manner that he the Devil doth now act and speak in you quakers and doth thereby teach you and over-rule you and deceive you quakers and doth also by permission thereby enable you to deceive others also And but for brevity sake I would relate at large the particular quakish gradations of the Devils former works in me how he would have perswaded me that I was Christ and he falling in that how he would have over-power me to believe that I should be a great admired Prophet and many other quakish luciferian exaltations he would have powerfully-fastned on me and in me sutably to the same order without Scripture-warrant even as he doth now work in all deceiveableness in you quakers and how that