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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

be true Unction which is not received by the Letter had not Abraham Isaac and Jacob and the rest of the holy men of God who lived before Moses writ the Letter had not they I say the Spirit of Truth within them were there not many deceitfull Serpents filthy spirits like thine in their dayes and had they any outward writing given them as an infallible Rule to discover false spirits with was not the spirit of God in them the infallible Rule and sole Touch-stone for the tryall of spirits which were true which were false Did Paul and the rest of the Apostles receive the Spirit of Truth by vertue of hearing or reading any writings or books without them That which I brought out of 1 John 2. as to the Annointing stands unshaken and cannot be removed by all the Brats of Babylon does not John admonish them to keep to the Unction within which they had received does he bid them make his Epistle their Rule to walk by or could they have been seduced if they had kept to the Annointing within though Johns Epistle had not been sent to them Answer those quaeries Yet do I not deny but the Saints in their infancie are capable of good counsel and may admit of a leading by the hand let him that is confirmed strengthen his Brethren Thy carping at the spirits interpretation of 1 Joh. 4.1 2 3. shews the blindness of the Babylonian He who can make a good Confession and give a good account of Christ Jesus in his own fleshly Tabernacle he is of God this Exposition cannot by the Serpents subtilty be shaken as for the Pope both him and thee I do deny abominable lyars are you both he is thy brother though thou bawls against him you are both servants to one Master the man of sin he denies Christ come in the flesh of his Saints and so dost thou therefore Antichrists you both be it 's but the lyar that tels me my Master hath not commanded me to judge he whom thou boasts came not to judg the world but to save the world sayes in the next words He that rejecteth me and receiveth not my word hath one that judgeth him and so hast thou for thou rejectest him he is my witness and he came not to bring Peace 1 Cor. 6.2 but a Sword to the man of sin whom thou servest But if the Saints shall not judge the world thou must make Paul a lyar like thy self And does not the Spiritual man judge all things and he himself is judged of no man But since thou art so much against judgement tell me by what authority dost thou judge me for an Enemy of Righteousness with a deal of such like Antichristian Rubbish which reaches me not why dost thou judge those people called Dippers calling them the chief Princes of M●shech and Tuball saying they know no 〈◊〉 buriall of Christ but buriall in water And by what Authority dost thou judge the Priests of the Nation for Antichristians Answer those quaeries when thou writes again In one of thy Arguments thou shames not to affirm that the L●tter under the name of the words of Christ is Spirit and life in it self and in another of the same mettal for they both come from one Mint and have both but one Father thou concludes the Spirit of God in the Apostles who were Saints is the Rule to try and discovery of false spirits and then falls to thy old vain of boasting that this Argument I cannot deny in any part but indeed the man is so accustomed to lye that 't is a 〈◊〉 matter for him to speak true Say Ionathan when did I deny that the spirit of God in the Apostles while they lived upon earth was their Rule for them to try and discover false spirits does not my Letter speak the same Language but did not the spirit of God in them at their death return to God that gave it them wouldst thou have me be as sottith as thy self to say and unsay and own their writings to be the spirit of God but I have little pleasure to take thus in thy Dung-hill only 't is my desire the weak may not be wooryed by but beware of such Foxes and Wolves in sheeps clothing Thou charges me for a lyar for saying thou owns the Letter to be the Rule but one thing is I need not go far to fetch my proof thou hast given it under thy own hand in these words See thy Reply to the 12th Position Therefore the Scriptures are the sure and infallible Rule to try the Spirits whether they be of God or no yet for all this and thy other argument wherein thou calls them spirit and life in it self under the name of the Words of Christ thou calls them twice in this following argument of thine the dead Letter He that desires to be tryed by the true Touch-stone the infallible Rule the living Principle of God the Light of Christ in the Saints consciences the Spirit of truth and would not be tryed by the dead Letter his spirit is of God he 's guided by the spirit of Promise but Jonathan Johnson desires to be tryed as abovesaid not by the dead Letter therefore his spirit is of God he 's guided by the Spirit of Promise Thus thy charge is soon taken of and the lyar found lodging in thy own bosom how hath the Heathen raged and cast forth his Floods of indignation against me for calling the Declaration a dead Letter and yet speaks the same several times in this argument Didst thou not cry up the letter to be the in-let to the spirit of promise bid me leave my false luminary yet here owns the light of Christ in the conscience to be the spirit of truth surely the man thought he might say unsay as he list and took me to be as very a for as himself or else hath a very weak memory and that 's very bad for so great a lyar as he is I did never read grosser contradictions to my knowledge then have dropt from the pen of this painted Pagan And yet for all this folly confusion he must needs give me another rotten reed of AEgypt as it were for a farewel in an argument the substance whereo● is thus They who were Master-builders c. must needs be the true Touch-stone but the Apostles were Master-builders c. whom M. M. denies to be tryed by calling their preaching and teachings dead and lifeless therefore his spirit is the spirit of error What a forgetful or wilful lying Beast is this did he not but even now a little before in his other Argument say that he himself desired to be tried by the light in the Saints consciences and not by the dead letter and ye● taxes me with the spirit of error for the same thing O blush and be ashamed But for further answer According to the grace of God which is given unto me as a wise Master-builder I have laid the

foundation saith Paul 1 Cor. 3.10 Col. 3 1● He built upon the rock Other foundation then that is laid can no man lay which is Iesus Christ in all Iew and Greek Barbarian Scithian bond and free To this unction within did the Apostles direct the people and if there had not been a royal seed of God left in eveey man and woman to have answered owned and received the testimony of the Apostles they might have wandred all the world over and have spent all their life-time and not have gained one convert but there was a witness for God in all and that which lay dead did at the hearing of the voice of the Son of God live and the Apostle was sent to open the blind eye of those Gentiles who had eyes to see yet saw not the Lamb of God the Lord of Glory crucified in them so that great mystery of Christ in them the hope of glory was then to them revealed and made manifest so here that which was the foundation that was the Touch-stone and Christ in all the Unction the Annoynting within was the Foundation of the Apostles that which they built upon therefore the unction the annoynting within the light in all consciences that 's the true Touchstone and the infallible rule for the tryal of spirits which be true which be false Thus I have traced the Serpent in most of his crooked holes and windings even almost unto weariness that which follows is to you poor hearts who are so wedded to your water that you count no man a Saint who submits not to your ceremony Answer me in good earnest Can your Diana satisfie a hungry soul are you not feeding upon that which is not the bread from heaven Is it your building the Tombs or garnishing the Sepulchres of the righteous with painted expressions and smooth glosses that can make you pass for pure Saints now the bright morning star is come to discover you Is it the putting away the filth of the flesh by washing the body in outward water or the answer of a a good conscience towards God that is well pleasing unto God and who can witness the answer of a good conscience towards God that is not guided by the light of God in his conscience and are you guided by that of God in your consciences who are not to come to yea and nay in your dealings are you guided by the light of God and yet dare not use the language of God and his Saints recorded in the Scriptures are you guided by the light of God in your consciences who yet live in respect of persons and be conformable to the vain customes and fashions of the heathen and are not yet brought to the brideling of the tongue Be not angry hereat for deer is my love to that of God in you Ah! how should I rejoyce to see you joyn your selves to the children of the Lord ah seek no longer the living among the dead contend no longer about that which brings no contentment to the soul Would you see the King of Saints Loe hee 's within you go not forth Ah! be no longer loyterers Great is the harvest and the labourers but few He that is not with me is against me Be no longer in the number of those who forget God Fight no longer for that which cannot stand before the Lord you have too long idolized your ceremony and therefore like the brazen Serpent is it broken in pieces Paul told the people He had not shunned to declare unto them all the counsel of God but where did he mention Water-Baptisme as a branch thereof if it had been of the counsel of God certainly Paul durst not have concealed it Did he not fore-see that thing began to be idolized in his days did not contentions then arise among the people some saying I am of Paul another I of Apollo some of Cephas some of Christ therefore he knowing it not to be a precept but a permissive practice Iaid it aside and thanked God that he had baptized none but Crispus and Gaius and the houshold of Stephanas an infallible sign it was no better than a Ceremony 1 P●● 3.21 had it been a command durst he have discontinued it nay does he not plainly tell the people he was not sent to baptise but to preach the Gospel and does not Peter speak plain enough to the prudent does he count Water-Baptisin any better than a figure pointing out the substance the answer of a good conscience Are figures and shadows to abide or flie away Which of you would you be but truly honest to the light of God in you durst positively affirm outward Water to be the Baptism of Christ Is not his a Baptism of Sufferings Be not afraid to take up the daily Cross but like valiant souldiers enter the field and despise the shame Be not fearful of Giants in the way for his yoke is easie and his burden light He that commands gives power be you but willing and power will not be wanting to level those hills and mountains of corruption within you Do but set your hearts to love that Royal Seed of God the light of Iesus Christ in your consciences and that you shall witness to be power invincible to resist and quench the fiery darts of the Devill O come away and do no longer stay left the door of mercy be shut against you Martin Mason