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A96406	The voice of wisdome, uttered forth against antichrists folly and deceits, and the freeness of Gods love to the creature, and the effects of his righteousnesse in his people truly discovered. ... and this is in answer to a book, falsly titled The Quakers folly made manifest to all men. Given forth by Tho. Danson, a priest at Sandwich in Kent ... / By a friend to them that regard true instruction, and a witness of Christs righteousnesse, George Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1659 (1659)	Wing W1972; ESTC R186533	21,823	56

and opened not his mouth before his accusers the Jews and chief Priests And as for the rest of Tho. Dansons torn confused language and several more lyes and false accusations in his Book and Narrative which I could further make manifest I let them pass as things not worth answering but to be trampled under feet by them that are in the light which discovers all such blind Watchmen and Shepherds that cannot understand whose nakedness and shame the Lord God is discovering to the simple-hearted and if Thomas Danson or any of his brethren in iniquity proceed to broach their lyes confusion and slanders against the truth or against us who own it as in his pride and enmity he hath done in his confused Book they may truly expect that the Truth will further make manifest their folly and deceit And now that they that desire any further to see more of Thomas Dansons Doctrines which he affirmed at the Disputes with us to the matter of which Doctrines this foregoing Treatise contains an Answer and which are Answered and Confuted in Richard Hubberthornes book Titled The difference of that Call of God to the Ministry c. they may see and consider his false doctrines as followeth and see how unfit he is to be counted a Minister of Christ and how unlikely he is to convert any to Christ while he preacheth such Doctrines 1. Priest Tho. Danson Affirmed That it is non-sence to say that a man is made a Minister by the gift of grace 2. That he pretends to no infallibility in Ministry 3. That every individual man was not inlightned by Christ 4. That the Gospel is an external light and not invisible 5. That Christ being the propitiation for the sinnes of the whole world as John said 1 John 2.2 is meant onely the world of believers 6. That they must reconcile the Scriptures to themselves 7. That the law of the Spirit of life in Christ was not the law of the Spirit in the Saints 8. That there were two Righteousnesses of Christ the one without the Saints to justifie them and the other within the Saints that did sanctifie them 9. That the Saints were not justified by that Christ within them and since that he hath affirmed two Christs Christ personal and Christ Mystical 10. That David when he was guilty of adultery and murther was not in a condemned estate but in a justified estate 11. And concerning them in Heb. 12. who were come unto the spirits of just men made perfect the said Priest said it was meant that they were in Heaven and not upon earth 12. That that which fitted men for the inheritance among the Saints did not entitle them to the inheritance 13. That we cannot contain an infinite Righteousnesse in us 14. That God offers salvation to all men but he intends it but to a few 15. That a Minister of the Gospel doth not know who are elected 16. That the sword of the Spirit is Ineffectuall without the Letter 17. That there was no Scripture written but what is extant and in the Bible 18. That the Letter doth ante-cede and go before the Spirit in all that walked in the Spirit 19. That Christ chose a Devil to be one of his Ministers c. 20. That the Spirit of God may accompany a Ministery and the Minister not have the Spirit And several other such like false Doctrines did the said Priest affirme which the true Ministers never did which manifests his want of the Spirit of truth and the infallibility of it so that all that know the spirit of truth may see him to be fallible And indeed it s no marvel that England hath so long been in darknesse and people have long wanted satisfaction to their souls seeing their Teachers are such as feed themselves and not the flock and take money and hire of the people for their preaching contrary to the example of the true Ministers and not onely so but they preach such false doctrines as this Priest hath done for hire and truly long may the people be destroyed for want of knowledge while they follow such Shepherds as cannot understand the things pertaining to Salvation for they being such as rebel against the light not abideing in the path of it nor knowing the way of it Job 24.13 they contend against its being in the rebellious And they being such covetous men as have eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin they plead for sinne againsts Christs justifying Righteousnesse and perfection made manifest in the Saints on earth 2 Pet. 2.14 And so they being ignorant of Gods Righteousnesse and his works in his people which are perfect they go about to establish Imperfection and so many are alwayes learning among them and loaden with sinnes and iniquities and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth nor know freedome from the sinne which doth burthen their souls so long as they look for help among such miserable Comforters as these Shepherds are that plead for sinne and Imperfection in this Life But now is the Lord manifesting his glory and causing his light to break forth as the morning that the darkness may be expel'd the clouds of ignorance removed from off the understandings of many that they may be delivered from the mouths of such Shepherds as have made a prey upon them and escape out of the snares And now is the star risen in Jacob and the seed coming forth that shall smite the false Prophets and Diviners and rule over the Nations And they that come forth from among this perverse generation of the wicked and wait upon the Lord for his life to arise and rule shall see the salvation of our God who is the God of our salvation who pleadeth our Cause indueth us with wisdome and fighteth for us to him be glory for ever and ever Let all flesh fear before him and the spirits of all flesh submit to him and every tongue confesse to his glory who is abasing the pride of man and staining the glory of all flesh that he himself may raigne and his own Seed may have the preheminence and raign over Babylon and over all her confused crew whose habitation is in darknesse and confusion though they joyn hand in hand in warre against the Truth the Lamb shall overcome them and overthrow their habitation Blessed are they that wait and with patience follow the Lamb through the warre for they shall raign with him in Glory and shine in his Kingdome for ever and ever Amen Allelujah G. W. THE END

false Ministry Priest My words were that the Gospel is an external light as that of the sun Answ That also is false for the Gospel is the power of God which is invisible Rom 1 16 20 and not external as the light of the Sun for that is created but the Gospel is Eternal Priest That I denied that the Saints were justified by that Christ that was in them To which he replies to Rich. Hub. Thou lovest lying rather then to speake righteousness Psal 52.3 Ans Rich. Hub. hath not belyed thee at all for when I asked thee whether the Saints were justified by that Christ that was in them yea or nay thou answeredst no as many heard thee so seek not to blind people with covering thy errors as now thou wouldst in pretending that it is but one and the same Christ that justifies and sanctifies wherein thou hast flatly confuted thy self for if it be the same Christ that justifies and sanctifies then it s but one and the same righteousness which effecteth both these in and for the Saints And see how again thou hast contradicted thy self in owning but one Christ when in page 23. thou hast plainly affirmed two Christs Christ personal and Christ mystical and so hast shewed thy self to be of Antichrist for the Saints preached but one Christ which was in them their hope and he it is whose fulness is thorow all filling all things so he that preacheth another Gospel or Christ then the Saints preached let him be accursed Gal. 1.9 Priest The righteousness which God works in us is but finite as well as other effects p. 39. Ans And yet this said Priest in p. 37. hath owned that the righteousness whereof Christ is the subject and that whereof he is the efficient are of one species or kinde see his confusion then I say the righteousness which God effects in us is not finite but infinite for Christ is Gods righteousness and Christ is formed in us Gal. 4.19 and so that righteousness which God works in us by his Spirit it s of the same kind and nature with that which worketh it for the Saints are made partakers of the divine nature 2 Pet. 1.4 which this Priest being ignorant of he confutes himself and such would divide the justifying righteousness from being in the Saints and would make that righteousness in them but finite when as Christ his infinite righteousness and the Saints are in one another in one Covenant and he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are one Heb. 2.11 and whatsoever God doth it shall be for ever Eccles 3.14 then Gods righteousness in us is not finite but infinite In page 40 and 41. the Priest saith I affirmed and do among those that hear the Gospel salvation is offered to more then to whom it is intended I should rather think our preaching is to more purpose because we know not who are elected for the ignorance of that gives us a ground to hope well of any man Ans Here people may see the Priests Ignorance concerning Salvation and how their hope is grounded upon their Ignorance but Christ is Gods salvation to the ends of the earth offered to all men with an intent that they might beleeve and be saved and for them that are condemned it is not because Salvation was not intended of God for them but because that when Salvation was offered and intended to them they beleeved not in it as a promise of entring into Gods rest may be left unto a people and yet they not enter into the rest because of their unbelief Heb. 4. And men are not condemned for want of having a saving light given them or because God hath afore purposed their destruction and thereupon deprived them of saving grace as the Priests imagine but this is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather then the light John 3.19 And Christ came not to condemn the world but to save the world so that these Priests who are ignorant of the elect and have their hope of any mans welfare grounded upon that Ignorance their hope is a false and a blind hope for how can they hope well of any man when they know not who are elected and do not beleeve that salvation is intended as free for all men so herein have the Priests largely made manifest their blindness and their blind hope and their preaching and praying for people to be of none effect for if salvation be not free or not intended for all to what purpose is the Priests bidding all their Hearers lay hold upon Christ and putting them all into a hope for that which they say was never intended for many of them but herein is their ignorance and blind hope which they strive to beget people into plainly manifested for the true hope is not grounded upon Ignorance but in that spirit whereby the precious is discerned from the vile and the sheep known from the goats by the true Shepherds and Ministers Priest That the Spirit was not wont to be effectual without the Letter or that he wrought upon the souls of men in and by the Letter of the Word and I gave you that instance Rom. 10.17 Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God Ans He might as well have said That the Apostle Pauls Ministry was not wont to be effectual as to say That the Spirit was not not wont to be effectual without the Letter for Paul was not a Minister of the Letter or Writing but of the Spirit or of the thing declared of 2 Cor. 3 6. and as for that of Rom 10 17 that hearing comes by the Word of God that is against this said Priests principle for there is a difference between the Word and the Letter The Word liveth and abideth for ever 1 Pet 1 23. so doth not the Letter and the Spirit was wont to be effectual among the Saints Patriarcks and Prophets before the Letter was written or given forth and the Spirit or Word was effectual among the Gentiles who had not the Law or Letter of it outwardly so how Ignorant these Priests are of the Spirits efficacy all that know it may easily judge and how would they ever convince the Turks or Heathens of Christ with their preaching if the Spirit be not effectual without the Letter Priest That the works of Christ in some respect are not perfect I spake these words in reference to sanctification which I affirmed to be imperfect in this life p. 44. Ans Here he hath falsely charged the works of Christ with imperfection for all the works of God are perfect And by one offering God hath for ever perfected them that are sanctified Heb. 10 14 And Christ perfecteth the work of sanctification in them that beleeve as Christ said Sanctifie them through thy truth thy word is truth and the glory which thou gavest me I have given them that they may be one even as we are one I in them and

thou in me that they may be made perfect in one see John 17.17 21 22 23 and the Apostle witnessed to a sanctification throughout in body soul and spirit 2 Cor. 7 1 1 Thes 5 23 and Christ is come throughly to purge the floor so that his work of Sanctification is not imperfect as this Priest hath falsely affirmed but perfect Priest Not every gift of God is perfect page 44 Ans Here hath the Spirit of Antichrist appeared which hath not only accused the Saints and the work of Christ with imperfection in this life but hath so accused some gift of God with not being perfect when as every good and perfect gift comes from God Jam. 1.17 Then what gift of God is it that he esteems not perfect Pr. The Gospel gives life upon imperfect obedience Answ And yet before he denyed our good works of obedience to be a deserving cause of Justification when now were his words owned for truth then imperfect obedience is so farre deserving that the Gospel gives life upon it where 's the ranck Papist now but here also he is in Errour for the Gospel gives life upon believing in the light which is the work of God and the work of God is perfect saith Christ He that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live Pr. To prove Tho. Rumseys false doctrin which was That we preach a doctrine of Devils in saying that men may be free from sin in this life this Priest saith David was not free from the being of sinne but a sad instance of the power of it in real Saints and yet he was a pattern to New-Testament Saints Zech. 12.8 Answ That Scripture Zechariah 12.8 doth prove both Tho. Rumseys and Thomas Dansons doctrines false for the words of that Scripture are these In that day shall the Lord defend the Inhabitants of Jerusalem and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David and the house of David shall be as God as the Angel of the Lord before them So then if David was made a pattern to New Testament-Saints and the house of David be as God yea as the Angel of the Lord then was David and the New-Testament Saints freed from sin for in God is no sin and then real Saints had not the power of sin remaining in them as Tho. Rumsey and Tho. Danson hath accused them to their own shame in counting that a Doctrine of Devils which was the Saints Doctrine who witnessed a washing from all filthiness Ezek. 36.25 And Paul witnessed to a freedom from sin Rom. 6.18 22. and for calling this Doctrine a doctrine of devils God will call Tho. Rumsey and Tho. Danson to an account and they will never be clear from the guilt of their blasphemy herein without Repentance and I beleeve that all people that fear the Lord that see this will see their doctrine to be a doctrine of Devils in their pleading for sin and counting that to be a doctrine of Devils which they that were of God owned and which all must come to witness who ever come to be saved for there is no unclean thing must enter into Christs Kingdom therefore people must either expect freedom from sin in this life or never for it was the unbeleevers that died in their sins John 8.21.24 and there is no hope in the grave but as the tree falls so it lyes and every one shall be rewarded according to their deeds done in the body and the soul that sinneth it shall die but blessed are the dead that die in the Lord for their works shall follow them and they that die in Christ die in him in whom there is no sin And now Tho. Danson whereas thou hast made much ado in thy lying Narrative about a man that accused a Minister for saying that Sam. Fisher had received a Pension from the Pope at Rome and thy cavil is about the mans being mistaken concerning the Minister To which I say if thou wert not a man that rejoycest in iniquity thou wouldst never have so far rejoyced in that mans weakness as to publish that thing again since the man confessed his mistake and weakness in laying it upon the wrong party which if thou wouldst as well confess thy Errors as he did his there were the better hope of thee that thou wouldst forsake thy errors and lies and thine and thy hearers lightness and prophaneness was plainly then made appear to your shame And whereas thou confessest That it was the Minister of Staple Viz. Mr. Robert Wilkinson as thou callest him that so accused Samuel Fisher behinde his back with receiving a Pension from the Pope and thou goest about to maintain this accusation against Samuel Fisher in thy saying it s as probably true c. Now that accusation against Sam. Fisher do I return back again upon thee and that Priest of Staple as an invented lye and a slander of your own and God will judge you for it and Samuel Fisher and all who know his innocency and freedome from having any fellowship with the Pope or his corrupt ways may witness against thee and the Priest of Staple to be lyers and slanderers in this thing mentioned so to be in the work of your Father the Devil And here it is evident thou hast shot in the Devils bow as I told thee before according to thy own words and in the latter end of thy matter thou tellest a Story to move the Reader to laughter as thou sayest yea thou hast largely manifested thy folly and thy light spirit who would move people to madness Eccles 2.2 And that thou art one of the false Prophets who by their lyes and lightness made the people light and vain and where thou hast several times spoken to us as if we were put to silence or our mouths stopt at the dispute with thee it appears herein thou wouldst make people beleeve as if thou put us to silence with thy Arguments but thou mayest remember it was otherwise for several times when I or Richard Hubberthorn should have spoken the Magistrates and others of thy hearers made such a howling and a hideous noise whose iniquities thou partookst of in joyning in thy lightness with them that we could not be heard speak and other times with thy lightness thou stirred up lightness in them and at the first days dispute with thee when I began to answer thee after Sam. Fisher had spoken to thee thou offeredst to go away several times because I spoke And at the latter days dispute when thou wast ensnared whilst I spoke to thee some of the Magistrates threatned to break up the meeting if I would not lay down the Dispute and let another take it Priest And whereas thou accusest Samuel Fisher with being silent and thereupon interpretest his silence to be consent to the horrid Arrian blasphemy Answ The same false accusing Spirit in this Priest would have accused Christ with being guilty of blasphemy when he was silent