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A34987	A backslider reproved and his folly made manifest and his confusions and contradictions discovered in a short reply to a book lately published by Robert Cobbet called A word to the upright, who being turned from the light now makes it his work to war against it and them that walk in it; but his weapons are broken and in his own snare is he taken / written for the Truths sake by a servant thereof known by the name Stephen Crisp ; unto which is added a brief answer to a pamphelet [sic] stiled A brief discovery of the labourers in mystery Babylon.	Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.; Atkinson, Elizabeth. Breif and plain discovery of the labourers in mistery, Babilon, generally called by the name of Quakers.; Travers, Anne. Harlots vail rent and her impudency rebuked.; Coleman, Elisabeth. Harlots vail rent and her impudency rebuked.	1669 (1669)	Wing C6925; ESTC R29284	17,630	26

God Psal 46.4 And surely seeing the Light gives the knowledge of our duty shews sin and evil if the Light be obeyed or truly improved it will lead out of evil and guide man in his duty to God so preserve him from the punishment And by this Light we were first called and are in it and need not thy Exhortation who art a treacherous Backslider from it P. 5 6 7. And if hearkning diligently to the Voice of Christ be the the condition joyned to the Covenant and that the Law is manifesst within and we must wait upon him that has called us with earnest prayers c. and that experience is to be had in the Mystery and Life and Salvation not in the Scripture and that the Creature is to retire it self in stillness and not to take part with the Enemy c. as thou hast largely confest What must we wait in hearken in receive Life and Salvation in or experience the Mystery And to what must we retire And by what shall we know the Voice of Christ and pray if not in and by his Light within For thou hast confessed that the spirit of the Wicked one worketh in the Children of Disobedience to do evil so the Spirit of Christ doth work in the Believer to do well which is Trurh but against thy self As also those that have been faithful to their Captain though never so little were committed to their trust shall enter into the possession And p. 8. thou tells us of some that were deceived by not keeping humble and low to follow the Lord and how hard it will be for these to be renewed except they hearken to the Voice of the Lord behind them and O that we may never forget to wait upon the Fountain of Wisdom c. Thou art one of those that art exalted thou hast not kept in humility thou hast not followed the Lord thou hast grown wanton and kick'd against his Light within thou hast not waited for his Counsel as thou oughtest but hast lusted after evil till leanness is entred into thy Soul till gross darkness is come over thee and confusion is thy snare thou hast made lies and falsehood thy refuge like an impudent immodest hard-hearted Woman Who did help thee to compose and word thy lying Pamphlet We hear Ro. Co. commends it Was he thy Patron An angry dark conceited man who glories in his folly and yet thinks he is wise though he is as full of nonsence and confusion as thou art but his and thy clamorous lying Tongues God will cut off and stop your Mouths In p. 4. thou tellst us That the Disciples whom Christ called Brethren did not call themselves the Seed This is thy blindness for were not the Children of the Kingdom called the good Seed and the Children of the Promise counted for the Seed Were they not of one holy Seed and off-spring seeing he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one And were not they a Royal Seed a holy Priesthood And who were the Remnant of the Seed of the Woman that kept the Commands of God And it is remarkable that though thou hast often belied us yet in p. 1. hast confessed That we the people called Quakers of a truth God hath called us out of the broad way of wickedness and many Jewels were we adorned with So then we were a people called and adorned of the Lord and not with the Jewels of the Egyptians which falsly thou hast instanced in the Case Besides we are in the same Way Truth and Principles which God at first called us into though such perfidious Backsliders and Apostates as thou thy self and some others are have abused the Truth rejected his Call and cast his Law behind your backs to your own condemnation and destruction if you do not return and repent Here follows a Collection of some of thy Lyes and Slanders in thy Book against the Chosen people of God called Quakers which are rejected and returned back upon thee Lye 1. That they are Labourers in Mystery Babylon 2. That the subtile Serpent deceived them and made them become proud Boasters 3. That they call the Tower of Babel Mount Zion 4. That they are building it in their Imaginations 5. That he hath confounded their Language 6. That they call good evil and evil good saying It was the Enemy when it was the Lord. 7. That they conclude themselves to be saved by their works 8. That they subtilly perswade you to rest under a Covenant of works VVhich are gross slanders for it 's Christ who is our Saviour It is God that works all our works in us and good works as the fruits of the Spirit and true Faith God hath ordained 9. That they are turned Deceivers and Adulterers 10. That they content themselves with the works of their own imaginations 11. That they trust in their own Righteousness as the Pharisees c. 12. That pride of imagined Knowledge hath puft them up 13. That they being deceived labour to deceive others 14. That they say they see and desire to know no more A palpable slander against Quakers 15. That thou knowest many of them to be grievous Hypocrites 16. That they slight the Scriptures 17. That they are full of all subtilties far from the real Innocency 18. That they are strong Builders in Mystery Babylon 19. That they to shelter themselves many times bring Scripture in a confused manner onely to maintain imaginations 20. That when they are confuted by plain Scripture they will put it off by Evasions These with several more Lyes in thy Pamphlet intended against the Quakers we return back upon thee E.A. as one that hast impudently slandered Gods people called Quakers And though thou art back-slidden and turned into lyes and lightness yet thou art fain to make use of many words and expressions thou hast learned amongst the Quakers to make thy false Coin go the more currant But the Lord hath made thee and that Reviler Ro. Co. sufficiently manifest and your wickedness will sink you down into the pit if you do not return to the Light within which you have abused and repent Thou tellest If the Lord shall call thee out of this Tabernacle of Clay That will be a sad day if thou goest on in this wickedness and impudency a sad end and terrible death will seiz upon thee if thou doest not repent in time VVhen thou art on thy Death-Bed remember thou wert warned in thy Life-time Thy vain light mind and spirit which hath brought forth Lyes against the Innocent will not be able to contend with the mighty God in that day wherein he will judge the Secrets of thee and all other Transgressors and Revolters according to the Gospel and that Light within which thou hast so much slighted and opposed Thou upbraidest some with a Common Belief of being saved by the Merits of Jesus Christ as not having Faith when we see not the Fruits of it brought forth p. 5. But what fruits hast thou brought forth and what are those Saints thou speakest of being Companions with p. 6 VVhat Saints can own thee in thy Lyes and Slanders VVhere are the Fruits of thy Faith that hast thus reviled an innocent People in general making some particular disobedient persons thy Cloak in what thou hast done But this Covering will be too narrow for thee and all such Back-●●iders who hast been forced to confess to the Principle of Truth amongst us after thou hast essayed to declare against it VVhereas thy chiefest colour is the back-sliding or transgression of some disobedient persons like thy self And not any Truth or Reason that thou canst produce against our Principles We are Witnesses to the Truth against Deceit and Impudency ANNE TRAVERS ELIZ. COLEMAN THE END

A Backslider Reproved AND His Folly made manifest and his Confusions and Contradictions Discovered In a short Reply to a Book lately published by Robert Cobbet called A Word to the Upright who being turned from the Light now makes it his work to war against it and them that walk in it But his Weapons are broken and in his own snare is he taken Written for the Truths sake by a Servant thereof known by the Name Stephen Crisp Prov. 10.18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips and he that uttereth a slander is a fool Vers 21. The lips of the Righteous feed many but Fools die for want of wisdom Chap. 12.2 A good man obtaineth favour with the Lord but a man of wicked devices will be condemn Unto which is added A brief Answer to a Pamphelet stiled A brief Discovery of the Labourers in MYSTERY BABYLON Printed in the year 1669. A Back-slider Reproved and his Folly made manifest and his Confusions and Contradictions discovered IT is not a new nor strange thing to see the old Enemy of the Light viz. the Prince of Darkness to be diligent in raising up as high Mountains and Towers as he can to keep it from shining and as he can bring forth no evil to man of himself without some Instrument into which he gets an entrance therefore he is diligent in perswading and tempting from the Light even those that have seen the Appearance of it and not become so subject to it as they should have been whose foolish hearts he darkens and fills their minds with vain imaginations and then are they choice Instruments for his purpose as bearing something more of his Image who himself abode not in the Truth than others And such as these he alwayes spurred on in a blind zeal against the Light as that which was most destructive to his and their works of darkness And among this sort of Instruments here is one Robert Cobbet hath presented himself as an enemy to the Doctrine of the Light though he is indeed but as one of the meanest and shattredest of that Camp and hath attain'd to but a small measure of that subtilty which this Father and Prince of Darkness doth use to furnish his children withal that are capable to receive it But however what he hath or thinketh he hath he hath adventured to present to publick view though indeed it is as a Rod for his own chastisement and I heartily wish there be so much sense left in him that he may feel the smart of it and may amend and leave off his folly and blind zeal and submit to that which comprehends him his spirit and work For I knew a time when he could not have believed that he should have been led to such a depth of Confusion in opposing the Light as now he is though he was never faithful to it as he ought but sought in his fallen corruptible wisdom to have comprehended it but I desire he may yet see a death upon that which hath unto this day kept his soul in death and darkness and in order thereunto and for the Truths sake I have written these few lines briefly to shew him and others his Confusions Contradictions and Absurdities or at least a few of those many which he hath uttered and Printed in his Book called A Word to the Upright c. And therefore Reader take notice that after his Book called God's Truth attested was made publick and something was written in Answer thereto shewing him how he contradicted himself and the Scriptures too in a seeming Reply thereto he published this called A Word to the Upright which he saith is to establish them in these erring dayes and to keep the young sprouts of the Nation from corruption in Opinion which whether R. C. hath written a piece that is likely to prove an establishing of the upright from Error or to prevent the young sprouts from corruption in principle or opinion will more appear anon to the considerate Reader when he hath rightly weighed the Consequences of letting in all his Doctrines for truth whether it will not render them more like to distracted men than principl'd Christians At my first sight of this Book it rose in my heart to write somthing in Answer to it and to take off the reproach which he hath endeavoured to cast upon the blessed Truth and Way of God which he hath turned his back upon but when I came to make a diligent search into the matter I found much of that labour spared the most part of his Doctrines being answered and confuted by himself in the same Book so that it might have been called Robert Cobbet answering and confuting Robert Cobbet as will appear in this ensuing rehearsal of his Doctrines and Principles And therefore now let the Upright to whom he writes consider what he propounds to them as an establishment against the errors of these erring dayes And first as to the Light in the Conscience he saith pag. 22. In that the Light is a sparkling glimpse in the Soul doth convince the Soul of what is done amiss which being discerned by the Soul serves for a Director of the Soul to Christ Jesus where only lies its help And in his 10th page saith That the Soul hath knowledge from this Light to eschew evil and do good in the doing of either of which stands his 〈◊〉 peace And in his 22 page saith That this Spirit or Light in man is the candle of the Lord that searcheth the innermost parts of the belly And in his 4 page faith Did not this Light in thy Conscience condemn thee of all that ever thou didst before the day of God brake forth And in his 3 page saith That the end of Christ's coming was to beget unto Communion with the Father and himself by giving them his life which is man's Light which my Brethren being our Salvation we have it by him who is our Saviour Jesus Christ And in his 11 page saith The Light serves to condemn for unbelief and to justifie the Creature in his obedience of Faith c. So by this time we see what a large testimony R. C. hath born to the Light in the Conscience and to its original to wit the Life of Jesus and to its power efficacy and influence and also to the effects that follow both the obedient and disobedient as wo and peace condemnation and justification and how it is the Souls director unto Christ and that by which the Soul obtains the knowledge of what is good and communion c. Now will or can any that doth take in and receive this Doctrine from R.C. doubt or question his being a friend to the Light and to the Quakers too seeing he hath so strongly asserted their Principle with so many illustrations Well suppose that now thou dost believe R.C. in these things and be setled in thy mind that he hath written the truth and so come to find a need of loving and obeying this Light