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A35122	A defence of the true church called Quakers (come and coming out of the wilderness, Babylon, and the dark night of the apostacy of Antichrist into their own land, which is Sion the mountain of holiness, there to worship the Lord in spirit and truth) against the several sects and sorts of people, called Independants, Separatists or Brownists, Baptists, Fift-Monarchy-Men ...	Crook, John, 1617-1699.; J. C. (John Collens), d. 1682.	1659 (1659)	Wing C7202; ESTC R35612	46,726	58

the true light must needs be in every one for the life is the light of men and so whatever good thing is wrought in mans heart doth not come from without him or from far but from the word within the mouth and heart and so ariseth from within himself for saith wisdom a good man shall be satisfied from himself and so did Christ promise Whosoever saith he drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst but it shall be a Well of waters springing up in him to Eternal Life and so did Isaiah Prophesie As the Earth bringeth forth her bud and as the Garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the Nations Oh! the sweet springings and buddings of the pure Life of God in mans heart after a night and winter of sorrow and darkness and silent waiting upon that of God in him surely by this means and no other shall Righteousness towards man and praise and glory to the Lord God who is worthy and alone worthy spring up in the sight of others And oh ye Separatists so called how can it be expected that ye should Minister to each other in your Assemblies by the living Power of the Spirit of truth which is the Holy Annointing and the onely Exerciser of the Saints in all their administrations any more than others do but that ye should be as dead dry and formal as they in such exercises when as ye will not turn to the light which is the true Teacher and in the humility and penitency of your spirits wait in silence for the Comforters presence are ye not now comprehended and discerned by those who walk in the light as he is in the light to be dry dead and unsavoury and hating reproof and your Reprover who now calls for more living fruit in this his day of light and truth than in the times of more ignorance And are ye not proud and covetous and set down at ease in the wayes and customs of men as respecting persons c. as if there were no more cross to be taken up when the greatest is yet behind For the light shining in your dark hearts as it ariseth will cross your own wills and wisdom exceedingly and reject your vain confidence of your being the onely true Church and so ye will appear naked and bare as those that have been but in a dream that ye were come out of Babylon when as the Whore and Beasts mark is discerned in your foreheads other of her trumpery among you Wherefore I exhort you in Gods love and fear to come unto the light within which brings out of death and deadness and all transgression and out of all the wayes of confusion and that abominable practise of Infant Baptism which is a chief ground thereof and be not deceived God is not mocked for such as ye sow ye shall reap and if ye will still sow to the flesh as ye have a long time done ye shall reap cor●uption vanity and sorrow but if ye will sow to the Spirit and lay your ground work there ye shall from thence certainly reap life Everlasting But what hath he against us and our Profession may the B●ptists say who have not onely renounced ou● Infant Baptisme as a gross deceit but have practised in direct oppo●ition thereto by being dipped or baptized in water and so profess Faith and Baptism as the Apostles Saints did before the Apostacy The Spirit of the Lord hath enough against your Faith for some of you are for Free Will which ye say is a power placed in you whereby ye are able to stand or fall to your own Master of your own accord by taking heed to what the Scriptures outwardly declare some part whereof you call the Gospel and own no other so that one of ye once declared He knew no other Spirit now than the Scriptures as if the Spirit that moved the holy men of God to speak forth the Scriptures when it had so moved them had done its work and so quite forsaken the Earth when as the greatest glory of the Church and purest life of the Saints is to be brought forth in these last times as the Prophesies of the Scriptures do plentifully fore-shew which cannot be brought to pass but by the Spirit of the living God which Spirit or Life is but one in all and in all ages which is a spirit of Judgment and burning whose pure Judgements and Holy burnings are felt in this day of the Lords winnowing by those who every one in their own measure and order do silently sincerely and humbly wait for the same for although we say that every ones condemnation is just for loving his evil deeds and hating the light that shines in his heart yet no man is able in his own will distinct from this light to adde one cubit unto his stature that is to make one step in saving knowledge or obedience but is to believe in the light and wait therein so tarrying the Lords leasure till he arise in him up to the prey leading captivity c●ptive and bri●ging forth Judgement unto victory and if this seems a strange or foolish Language unto you know that it is because ye are in your own wills in distinction from the light which is Gods faithful witness within you which faithful witness is Christ the Power of God unto Salvation unto every one that believeth this is the Gospel or glad tidings indeed that man is not left to himself to work out his own Salvation but that the God of all grace hath left in him a seed which as a confirmation thereof was plentifully manifested in his Son made of a woman in due time in which he believing that it should break the serpents head and do all his works in him and for him so that ye Free-willers so called stumbling at this stumbling-stone and setting up the Scriptures which are but a wholsom Declaration of this seed and corner-stone in its place I do Declare against you and all such that ye are Idolaters and so out of the true Faith of Gods Elect and therefore not the true Church of Christ but the synagogue of Satan Wherefore I exhort you to come out of your own wills and carnal wisdom which begets you in your Congregations into many vain janglings rents and disputings and to wait in silence upon the Reprover in you for sin which alone is able to give you victory over sin that your mouths may be for ever stopped for pleading against the true light which is the true Prophet that ye perish not in the gain-saying of Kore who also stood up against the Lords Prophet Others deny indeed mans power will and ability to do good and so deny you as out of the Faith but how since they are become such disputers against and denyers of the true light that lightneth every man they should

A DEFENCE OF THE True Church Called QUAKERS Come and coming out of the Wildernesse Babylon and the dark Night of the Apostacy of Antichrist into their own Land which is Sion the Mountain of Holinesse there to Worship the Lord in Spirit and Truth against the several Sects and sorts of people called Independants Separatists or Brownists Baptists Fift Monarchy-men Seekers and High Notionists of all sorts who by the True Light are found and discovered to be out of the same Written by J. C. According to the measure of Wisdom given unto him from God who is the giver of every good gift LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659. WHen the Jewes outward Returned from the Captivity of Babylon which was the true figure of the Saints coming out of the long and dark night of Apostacy from the Doctrine and Life of the Apostles in the Primitive Times which was the Captivity of the spiritual Seed so great and many were their Enemies who endeavoured to cause their Work in repairing the desolate and ruined places of Jerusalem to cease that those who were imployed in that Work with one hand wrought and with the other held the Weapon even so is it and must it be now at the Return of the spiritual Seed not only within by exercising Faith and Prayer upon and to him that is able to save to the uttermost and in his strength wrestling against the Dragon and his Angels Principalities Powers and Spiritual Wickednesses in High Places and sundry temptations so quenching by the Armour of Light all the fiery Darts of the wicked one but also without both by holding forth the Word of their testimony and sealing it with their bloud and sufferings for the conviction and conversion of sinners so fitting stones for Gods spiritual building and also by stopping the mouths of gain-sayers who shall not be able to resist the Spirit by which they speak So standing in the gap and quitting themselves like Spiritual-men against the Beast and false Prophet and all the Armies of the Aliens Hear now therefore all ye that are called Independants Separatists or Brownists Baptists Fift Monarchy-men Seekers high Notionists of all sorts the Apologie or Defence that I in the wisdom and strength of my God for without him I can do nothing do make against you and for the true Church called Quakers against whom and whose standing Profession ye variously have prejudice and do contend And First for you called Independants ye assume a great Name but ye are not found in the Independant nature and so are not the true Church for although ye professe your selves as to the visible Administration of Church-power not to have dependance upon other Congregations or Churches as an inferiour on a superiour yet are there many things apparently seen amongst you which do un-Church you and remove your Candlestick far off for the true golden Candlesticks among whom Christ the Son of God walketh do hold up and hold forth the true light that it may shine before men but ye as do the common multitude reject it sleight it and Dispute against it as invalid and insufficient to lead in the way everlasting and so ye would have it kept under the bushel yea quite extinguished in the hearts of men and would have the Scriptures or Writings to be a light to it and not it an enlightener and opener of them whereby ye stumble at the Scriptures themselves and cannot discern of the times and seasons or of the Saints several states and conditions to God-ward who because they sometime witnessed a war and striving against the body of sin therefore say you they must alway while they live carry it about them as though the Saints fought as those that beat the Air or as though their labour were in vain in the Lord Oh! foolish people and unwise when will ye come to the true Teacher in your selves that ye may believe and know the Promise made unto the seed That there shall be no more a pricking Bryar unto the House of Israel nor a grieving Thorn of all that are round about them that despise them and they shall know that I am the Lord Also that their Enemies which they have seen to day they shall see them again no more for ever And that ye may see their interest in Christs Prayer whom the Father heard alwayes because he did alwayes the things that pleased him who said Neither Pray I for these alone to wit for the Apostles and Saints then in the world that they might be sanctified through the Truth but for them also who shall believe in me through their words that they all may be one c. I in them and thou in me that hey may be made perfect in one and that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me Mark This was a state of Saints Perfection in this world that worldly Spirits might be convinced thereby but ye being in the unbelief are even as the multitude alwayes hanging upon the lips of men whose tongues are not touched as the Prophets was with a Coal from Gods Altar who witnessed his sin purged and so are ever learning and never come to the true knowledge for the Pastors and Teachers of your Congregations have not yet witnessed the Vrim of the Sanctuary I mean the true spiritual Gift by believing and waiting on the true light which shineth in their dark hearts that should give them power from on high to minister in but are either men learned with the learning of this world or such who through strength of Brain and often reading of the Letter of the Scriptures can compose a Form of Words and deliver it unto you after a Priestly manner so that ye as still unsatisfied heap to your selves National Priests also for Teachers sometimes hearing the one and sometimes the other Yea some of your Pastors so called are National Priests also Oh! Friends it might shame you and make you blush for shame if ye could rightly consider to call your selves the Churches of Christ and Independants and be thus so dependant on mans Teachings Yea joyning with the National Priests about the way of sending out a Ministrie and bearing the Beasts very Mark in your Foreheads while ye are so called owning your Baptism in your Infancie to be true though ministred to a blank and by those who sprang from a Popish stock and sprinkling your own Infants now from a false apprehension of the Promise made to you and your seed after the flesh so calling that the seed whereas the true Churches of Christ knew no such seed nor owned any but that which sprang out of Christs womb in the Regeneration who is a quickning Spirit So Christ the Corner-stone and Head of the Church even the true and universal Light is come to fight against you with the sword of his mouth and to testifie to your faces That though ye call