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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89634	The boasting Baptist dismounted, and the Beast disarmed and sorely wounded without any carnal weapon. In a reply to some papers, written by Jonathan Iohnson, of Lincolne, as an answer to a letter, sent him by Martin Mason, concerning some exceptions against several truths. / Published by a faithfull minister, not of the letter, but of the everlasting Gospel.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1656 (1656)	Wing M924; Thomason E877_2; ESTC R202884	14,536	17

so The Lord rebuke thee for the delight of my soul is in the Light of the world Christ Jesus wouldst thou have me now that I am washed to return again to my wallowing in the myre When thou writes again if that be thy meaning say so man The Leopard cannot change his spots and 't is hard for thee to leave thy lying Thou sayes I kill the Scriptures Yet the Scriptures I own for they are serviceable can that which is dead be killed Dost not thou in two severall places call the Scriptures a dead Letter and still runs on in thy lying saying I am forced to run for shelter to those I account my enemies who knows thou sayes no other buriall with Christ but buriall in water calling them the chief Princes of M●shech and Tuball As for the men thou means viz. those called Dippers they are of age let them answer for themselves if they be not enemies to the Cross of Jesus Christ I shall not count them enemies to me but how canst thou prove that I run to them for shelter is it because I speak of thy sprinckling I never made any of them my Oracle therein Thou sayes I bid thee prove whether Christ commanded baptism to his Disciples yea or nay and did the Lord require it of his people to this day What an abominable lye besides Non-sence hast thou vented in two lines My words are these Is thy sprintling with water the baptism of Christ Iesus yea or nay Did the Lord command that to his Disciples yea or nay And does the Lord require it of his people to this day I did never read nor know of one that pretends to more Piety then thou does that ever excell'd or equall'd thee in thy devillish art of lying a notable Servant thou art to thy Master and sure thou art to receive thy Wages Rev. 21.8 For the simples sake I shall peruse those Scriptures thy Father sends thee with to fight for his Kingdom Matt. 28.19 20. Act. 2.38.41 42. but I finde not sprinckling with water there nor so much as the word water Nor does Acts 22.16 make for thy purpose where 't is said Arise and be baptized and wash away thy sins calling on the Name of the Lord Is sprinckling with water once mentioned in this place Or did Ananias bid him be baptized with outward Water Or could outward Water wash away Sauls sins Answer those quaeries without a lye if thou canst As for Acts 10.47 48 is it not clear the Holy Ghost was received without outward Water then where 's the necessity of sprinckling or dipping Does not thy next Acts 8.36 37. intimate that it is but a thing indifferent if thou beleevest saith Philip thou mayest as much as if he had said if thou beleeves outward water to be necessary to salvation thou mayest be baptized did he not rather choose to cherish then destroy the weak faith of the Eunuch The last Proof thou claps in is no better then the rest They were all baptized both men and women but Water is wanting Therefore cease vain Jangler for without adding to the Letter these places are not for thy purpose Iohn was a Prophet therefore his Ministration must end in Christ Jesus who is the fulfilling of the Law and the Prophets Some of the Apostles used circumcision in the flesh had they a command from Christ for so doing or was it not upon permission why dost thou not as well plead for and practise the one as the other is not their authority of an equall purity both by permission not by precept In thy Reply to the 7th Position I finde thee so puzled touchig Perfection that thou gives me no Answer to what I sent thee but would shuffle me off bringing Iam. 3.2 But does he plead against Perfection as thou dost does he not say in the same verse if any man offend not in words the same is a perfect man the Scriptures were never writ that the Devill by them should plead for sin Thou brings in Rom. 7.18 where Paul sayes I know that in me that is in my flesh dwells no good thing From hence thou would infer that in Paul there dwelt nothing that was good But wilt thou say the Holy Ghost is not good was not Paul filled with the Holy Ghost if it were as thou would infer then away with Pauls Epistles and by consequence with the rest of the Scriptures for they were all writ from one Spirit If there was nothing good in Paul then Paul must needs be a Seducer of the people VVhen we were in the flesh sayes Paul in the unregenerate condition the motions of sin did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death but now we are delivered from the Law that we should serve in newness of Spirit not in the oldness of the Letter And Rom. 8.8 9. They that are in the Flesh cannot please God but ye are not in the Flesh yet they were alive upon earth but in the Spirit That of Phil. 3. is to thee a mystery therefore Babler be silent the Tree thou feeds on is accursed Thy piece of Lodgick shews what a Pagan thou art That which is subject to mortality loss and change and mistakes is not perfect thou sayes But mans humane state in it self is subject c. therefore mans humane state is not perfect Where dost thou read this language of mans humane state in all the Scripture Consider of this in the cool of the day that which is born of the Flesh is Flesh but that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit is that subject to mortality loss and change that which is born not of blood nor of the will of man but of God that doth not commit sin that cannot sin because 't is born of God 1 Ioh. 3.9 Now because thou art so silent to what I sent thee concerning Perfection I here return thee some few things which my Letter mentions as to that Must the devill have power over thee while thou lives to make thee his vessel to do his will and work here on earth and dost thou hope to have Heaven for thy wages when thou dyes Knows thou not as the tree falls so it lyes and the wages of sin is death And is not the tabernacle of God with men Rev. 21. Does not the Lord say I wil dwel in them and walk in them c. is not this done upon earth Does not the Lord delight to save his people from their sins Does he justifie and not sanctifie his people does he forgive sins and not give power over sins what is the end of the Lords being present with his people and in his people but sheild them from sin and Satan and to keep them pure without spot or wrinckle who are willing to be guided by him And when thou writes again either confess or deny the Truth in thy Answer to those Quaeries But why dost thou deny that to be the true Spirit or that to

God no pleasing of God till the heart be purified and no purifying of the heart but by Faith in the Son of God shining into the heart there convincing the creature of sin in secret and then how dare I do this wickedness and sin against my God Gen. 21.23 He fills heaven and earth with his presence Col. 1.26 who is not at a distance he is not a God afar off but nigh at hand even in the heart and sees the secrets of the heart But this is a Mystery to all carnall mindes it was a Mystery in the dayes of the Apostles hid from Ages and Generations past but was then and is now made manifest to his Saints the riches of the Glory of this Mystery among the Gentils Christ in them the hope of Glory hid from the wise and prudent of the world and revealed unto babes No other Christ no other Word do we preach but that which the Prophets and Apostles did bear witness of that which we have seen with our eyes and heard with our ears 1 John 1. Rom. 10.8 Heb. 5.6 John 6.68 that word which is even in the heart and in the mouth to this Everlasting Priest which hath the Word of eternall life do we exhort the people to be obedient and who keep to this Annointing in them need not that any man teach them nor such be seduced by the Serpent Thou tells me of confessing the Apostles saying This is the VVord of Faith which we preach and the hearing of that VVord of Faith the light in the conscience is the in-let to the Spirit of Promisc and then thou asks me if this be not the same which thou sayest c. O shameless man Dost thou not in that exception of thine to the first Position cry up the Letter and say the hearing and receiving of that is the in-let to the Spirit of Promise and those who do not hear and obey that as the Teachings of God have not his Spirit and yet dares thou come thus impudently to bluster against me and tax me for a false accuser but shame shall cover thee and the hand of the Lord shall finde thee out Yet be it remembred that here thou hast owned the Light in the conscience to be the in-let to the Spirit of Promise Thou bids me if I can prove any jugling by thee do it Hast thou not saved me some labour and done it thy self one while owning the Letter to be the in-let to the Spirit of Promise and another time owning the Light in the conscience to be the Spirit of Promise sometimes calling the Letter the Rule and sometimes the Spirit for the Rule Dost thou not say thy Foundation is not built upon Paul or Peter as they were men but upon their preaching the Word of God and Jesus Is not thy Foundation built upon the Letter dost thou not account that for the Word of God which they preached But what 's thy meaning to say upon their preaching the Word of God and Jesus Is the Word of God and Jesus two distinct things Is there any other Word of God beside Jesus Rev. 19.13 Rom. 1.16 Is not he called the Word of God Is not the Word of God beleeved in the Power of God unto salvation Does thou not beleeve the Letter to be the Word of God yet neither is it nor thy belief there the Power of God to save thee from the beastly sins of lying pride paslion and bitter spiritedness and confusion Thou makes thy self merry with that expression of mine That which gave forth the Leaves town it is my witness against thee and all thy deceitfull juglings Thou Replyes The Printer gave forth the Leaves and so the Printer thou sayes is my witness c. And then backs that lye with another Brat of thy own begetting that neither Printer nor any thing printed from the voice of Truth will witness with me or be for me But the tongue of the lyar is not to be beleeved Had I dealt with the deceitfullest Parish-Priest in the Nation could I have found a more filthy gloss put upon that innocent Expression that which gave forth the Leaves I own Could I have met with less ingenuity in a Pagan Priest then is found in this high-flown Pharisee But friends you may see the man is put to his shifts while he is fain to make use of this shushing Was it not the pure Spirit of the living God that gave forth the Letter That and no other Spirit do I own and that is my witness against the lying Spirit lording it in thee Ionathan Iohnsen who sayes the Printer gave forth the Leaves Shame cover the lyar does not the Printer sell them to the Stationers But know this Alying tongue is an Abomination to the Lord and the Lake is the Portion of the lyar Rev. 21.8 Poor man how art thou puzled and tormented because in my Paper I cry not up the Letter but owns Christ alone who is the Light in the conscience to be the in-let to the Spirit of Promise Why does the Heathen rage Psal 2.1 and the man imagine such a vain thing as to think I should own thy Baptism with water which thou paintest over with the name of the Baptism of Repentance to be the in-let to the Spirit of Promise These are thy words That which is the in-let to the Spirit of Promise into the heart is the door and the way but the Baptism of Repentance the hearing of Faith preached or beleeving is the in-let to the Spirit of Promise therefore the Baptism of Repentance and the hearing of Faith preached and beleeving is the in-let to the Spirit of Promise So that none by this mans Doctrine can have the Spirit who bow not to his sprinckling Tell me Ionathan didst thou not a little before own the Light in the Conscience to be the in-let to the Spirit of Promise and call me false accuser for saying thou denyedst it Matt. 23.32 Fye Ionathan lye wilt thou needs be a lyar whether I will or no thou art hastning on apace to fill up the measure of thy iniquities and then shall the wrath of the Lord seize upon thee Judge O ye wise in heart if this Babler be not a Bond-slave in Babylon does he not say and unsay Does he not here place his Water and beleeving in the Letter in the room of Christ by making them the Way and the Door or in-let to the Spirit of Promise whoever are not spiritually blinde will see the blasphemy of the Beast for Christ the Light of the world is the Door and the Way Ioh. 10.9 Ioh. 14.16 and so the in-let to the Spirit of Promise and where must the creature look for Christ if not within Is not that the Light of Christ which tells every man and woman in secret of every sin he doth commit and perswades the creature not to run on in the evill of his wayes Does not Christ stand at the door and knock