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A65842	A brief discovery of the dangerous principles of John Horne (a priest in Lin) and Thomas Moore junior both teachers of the people called Mooreians or Manifestarians, (and called by some free-willers or independants.) In answer to their book called A brief discovery of the people called Quakers, and a warning to all people to beware of them and of their dangerous principles, &c. Which book is a false narrative of two disputes, the one which they had with John Whitehead at Gedney in Lincoln-shire, and the other with Geo. Whitehead and Geo. Fox the younger, at Lin in Norfolke, both in the seventh moneth, 1659. Also priest Horns testimony against his brethren the priests. This is to go amonst the professors in England in discovery of the truth; ... By the truth which is in George Whitehead. John Whitehead. George Fox the younger.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.; Whitehead, John, 1630-1696. aut; Fox, George, d. 1661. aut	1659 (1659)	Wing W1896; ESTC R220960	30,510	44

they say that we said the same body that suffered was glorified at Gods right hand in heaven yet still they say we meant but his Church either by his body or by the heavens and then they charge it upon us as a fundamental error Answ. Now they that discerne the body of Christ may see how these wise men of Babylon have confounded and stifled themselves in their own confusion one while saying that we would not be drawn to answer their question another while confessing that we said the same body that suffered was glorified at Gods right hand in heaven and now when they can get nought against our words they charge us ignorantly with what we meant and here it appears they hold that Christ hath two bodies in telling of a mystical body and not receiving that as an answer that his body is the Church the fulness of him that filleth all in all so that from their words they would have Christ to have a body besides or distinct from the fulness of God when as the Scripture doth not say that Christ hath two bodies nor that his body is a body of flesh and bones without the blood in it in the Heavens as John Horne and Thomas Moore have told us for its not proper to say that a body of flesh and bones is in the Heavens as if it were in many places at once for Heavens are more then one and the body is one and hath many members 1 Cor. 12. 12. and this body is not carnal but spiritual which they who were carnal as these men are could not discern though the outward bodies of believers they might discern and yet this body of Christ is discerned by the believers who are led by the Spirit of God and its in the heavens above the clouds which they who are gazing abroad and looking carnally to see Christ they discern not the Lords body for they see not thorow the Clouds into the Heavens so Christ is taken out of their sight But Stephen who was full of the Holy Ghost saw the heavens opened and the Son of man on the right hand of his Father and John in the spirit saw into heaven and a door opened in heaven and Christs body is not distinct from the spirits of all men as it is distinct from carnal bodies as you imagine by your Question for the just men who are come unto mount Zion where the Lamb Reigneth in his glory I say their spirits rejoyce in him and the true Church in Christ which discerneth his body in his fulness is but one compleat body in the fulness of God which filleth all in all both in Heaven and Earth though you imagine two bodies of Christ And this know that what the Scriptures do declare of Christ and his body we own and the same that descended into the lower parts of the Earth is he that Ascended far above all Heavens that he might fill all things the same Christ that suffered in the body at Jerusalem who appeared in divers forms after his Resurrection and in the transfiguration before the same rose again and was taken in his Ascending out of the sight of them that gazed after him and is glorified in the same glory which he had with the Father before the world was John 17 and as he who is the Word became flesh so when the dayes of his flesh were finished he was translated into his own glory which he had with his Father from Eternity and so the second Adam is a quickening spirit and his body is spiritual not discerned by you whose minds are out from his spirit neither can his glory by which he was transfigured and is glorified be seen but by them who pass thorow death and follow him into the mount And now you who so much contend about the body of Christ we ask you this Question whether do you believe that the body of Christ which the Saints upon earth do discern and which the world cannot discern is a body of flesh and bones in the Heavens yea or nay seeing you own the believers or the Church to be a body of Christ and plead for another body of Christ distinct from them John Horn and Thomas Moore p. 5. Say that believers are members of his body namely his mystical body of his flesh and of his bones not flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone Answ. This is grosse confusion to say that believers are members of Christs flesh and bones and then to say they are not flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone as if Christ had two bodies of flesh and bones one of which the Saints are not members when the Apostle saith as much as they were flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone in his saying no man ever hated his own flesh but nourisheth it and cherisheth it even as the Lord the Church for we are members of his body of his flesh of his bones Eph. 5. 30. J. Horn Tho. Moore bring 1 Thes. 4. 15. 16. and Phil. 3. 20. 21. where it is said Christ shall descend from Heaven not from but to his Church say they yea this of the Quakers denying that body glorified doth at once turn up by the roots all the faith of Christs appearing in the presence of God to mediate for us Ans Was there ever the like confusion and falshood uttere'd as these men do appear in a little before they say of the Quakers that they said the same body that suffered was glorified at Gods right hand in Heaven and now charge us with denying that body glorified it were well they would be ashamed of their lies and confusion and as for that 1 Thes. 4. 15. Concerning the coming of the Lord from Heaven which these men aforesaid would blindly put afar of as to a coming of Christ with flesh and bones the Apostle saith we which are alive remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are a sleep so that coming of Christ the Saints who then were alive remained unto it and in that of Phil. 3. 20. 21. there it is said our conversation is in Heaven from whence also we look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ so their conversation was in Heaven and there they looked for the Saviour they did not say their conversation was at a distance off above the Clouds from whence you look for a Christ like your selves but that he hath no blood in his body as you imagine whom we desire not the knowledge of and that your Faith which is not grounded in Christs appearing in you is to be turned up by the roots Again J. Horn and T. Moor do accuse us to be Reprobate concerning the Faith touching the Resurrection of the dead as chiefly they accuse us for affirming that the same body that dyes shall not be raised again and that George Fox would not be brought to say whether the spiritual body was ever dead but answered in general

used any such canting language as they call it against Christ but own his sufferings in Judea and Jerusalem as he was a true offering and propitiation for the sins of the whole world whose sufferings were effectual both for the pacifying of his Fathers wrath and for the reconciling of the whole world as is witnessed by them who receive the Power of his life which was manifest thorow death to them that truely believed thorow Christs sufferings and in page 9. the said J. Horn and T. Moor have belyed George Whitehead in saying that he alleadging 2 Cor. 5. 16. to prove that the Apostles did not know Christ as one that suffered in the flesh or to be in the flesh which is exceeding false for that Scripture henceforth we know no man after the flesh and though we had known Christ after the flesh yet henceforth know we him so no more it was brought against your knowledge which is but carnal and stands in imaginations who neither truly know Christ as he was in the flesh nor after the Spirit but contend against the knowing of him as he was before the world was and as you say you neglect Christ and so against the knowledge of the glory of God as a knowledge to Salvation when as they neither knew Christ nor any man after the flesh but after the Spirit they knew Christ and one another in that Spirit and Power in them which was before the world was but this knowledge you are out of who know but naturally In page 9 10. J. Horn and T. Moor again affirm that the nature of man as in Christ is perfectly freed from sin and curse and without spot of sin and the same nature of man even in believers having sin in it as a naturall Heritage from the first Adam fallen Answ. See their gross error and confusion which is as much as to affirm that as the nature of man is in the believers it 's separate from Christ and so believers in Christ having sin in them originally from Adam as a natural heritage so they would make believers have two heritages a naturall and a spirituall an old delusion of the Priests for the true believers are in Christ and by his power do witness their nature purified by that which brings out of Adams fallen state to witness a better heritage then sin in their nature for they that are in Christ have escaped the corruptions of the world and witness an incorruptible heritage in the divine nature and this is known as there is an biding in Christ the power of God And in page 1● they charge us with denying the humanity of Christ and say we judge him only a spirit Answ. We never denyed the man Christ for his flesh is our food for our owning Christ to be a spirit the Apostles owned him to be the same the Lord is that spirit and the last Adam was made a quickening spirit 2 Cor. 3. 1● 1 Cor. 15. 45. Again they have affirmed that Christ is personally in heaven and yet by faith in the believing heart and that he is not really and personally in believers as in heaven but by faith and yet Moor before said that Christs person of flesh and bone is a quickening spirit Answ. If Christ is not really in the believers and if his being in them by faith is not reall then it is but imaginary herein J. Horn and T. Moore have manifested their faith to be no better then the Papists faith as I told them wherein I did not belye them as they accuse me for the faith of the Elect doth really evidence to them Christ in them the mystery and the power of God and this faith is not divided from Christ the object or foundation of it And now concerning the blood of Christ shed which T. Moore at the dispute owned to be the foundation of your faith and yet affirmed that the body of Christ is in heaven with flesh and bones but not the blood in it and so knew not where the blood is Now they tell us in page 11. that his blood was shed or powred out for the Remission of our sins and in the vertues of it is with the Father and so in and with Christ Answ. Herein they have plainly confuted themselves for they also confess that they could not assert where the material blood as they call it or blood of Christ shed is and yet now say that in the vertues of it is with the Father and in and with Christ so J. Horn and T. Moons hearers may now see how they have confuted their former Doctrine who before would not own that the blood of Christ shed is in the body of Christ yet now say it is with the Father and in Christ in the vertues of it and now to clear themselves from our telling them that they preached a foundation of Faith which they knew not where it is and which according to their own confession before they knew not whether it is in being or not They tell us That the dying of Christ or his death is the foundation of their faith and yet this dying as to the act of it is not alwayes in being nor is the blood simply the foundation of their faith Answ. Here again they have preached that to be the foundation of their Faith which is not in being when as the foundation of the true Faith is Christ who is in being and another foundation can no man lay then that which is laid which is Christ and as for what he acted in sufferings that was done that thorow his sufferings and works men might believe in him who worketh Faith in them and know him to be the foundation of Faith who is in being and not that which is not in being as they imagine and have declared and they now owning the blood of Christ shed not simply to be the foundation of their faith then if they own it as part of the foundation of their Faith then are they still at a loss for they know not where it is and so according to their own words they want part of the foundation of their faith we blame them not neither did we blame them for not asserting that the blood shed is in the body of Christ but for calling it the foundation of their faith whether they own it so simply or compoundedly seeing they know not where the blood is nor whether it is in being and so we blamed them for their confusion and establishing a blind and dead faith T. M. his instance for Christs being in Heaven with a body of flesh and bones without blood in it was that we do not read that there was any blood in Adams body in Paradice for which he might as well have said that then Adams body in Paradice had no life in it and such a body they imagine Christs to be when as the blood is the life and all Nations are made of one blood Acts 17. 26. Now we ask them

truth of Christ In p. 14. John Horne and Moore have affirmed The Scriptures to be the Medium of Faith from John 17. 20. where it s said neither pray I for these alone but for them also which shall believe on me through their word and Acts 17. 11. 12. of the Bereans searching the Scriptures c. Answ. There is no such Scripture as saith that the Scriptures are the Medium of Faith for they through whose word many believed were not Ministers of the Letter but of the spirit and their Word was before the Letter or writing was and it came in Spirit and in Power and this Word which they Preached was nigh people even in their hearts Rom. 10. And as for the Bereans they first received the Word with all readiness of minde and then searched the Scriptures whether these things were so so it was the Word which brought them to believe and to search the Scriptures and so we say the Scriptures are truely to be believed and fulfilled but that which brings any truely to believe and fulfill them is Christ the Word the Author and finisher of faith unto whom they would not come for life who thought they had Eternal life in the Scriptures Joh. 5. 39 40. In pag. 15 John Horne and Thomas Moore have accused John Whitehead with saying that the Apostles did not bring light to men but onely pointed to what they had before Answ. John Whitehead doth witness against them for perverting his words as it hath been examined the words are not so affirmed by him but this we say that the Apostles did not bring another light to people then that which had enlightned them before they Preacht to them and though the light was more in the Apostles then in them they Preacht to yet it was the same in nature in both though known in several measures and they who will not own the light in the least measure of it in them they must not know the greater nor the glory which the light of Christ shining in the heart gives the knowledge of in them that receive it Again Horne and Moore say Indeed this is a main piece of corrupt Doctrine that we Preach that all have the light of Christ in them and that that is whatsoever reproves any sin in men Ans. Here they might as well have accused Christ and the Apostles for using corrupt Doctrine for Christ saith I am the light of the world and John said of him that was the true light which enlightneth every man that comes into the world and that which may be known of God is manifest in them who are in unrighteousness and like not to retain God in their knowledge Rom. 1. and the grace of God which bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men and this is the free gift of God which if it were not given to all men then wherefore shall the wicked be condemned and what is it in them that must leave them without excuse and who can you shew us that have not a light of Christ in them to reprove them when they have done evil And you have again here wickedly wronged us for we do not affirm that whatsoever reproves any sin is the light of Christ but whatsoever makes manifest things that are reproved is light and the light reproves every sin But such as you that are in deceit and out of the light do sometimes reprove sin when you live in it your selves but the light of Christ in you will reprove you for it Again in p. 16. You John Horn and Thomas Moore say That this way of ours exposes men to follow their own spirits which we represent as a candle in every man Answ. This is false for our way exposes men not to follow their own spirits nor sparkes of their own kindling as you say but to follow the light of Christ which lighteth the spirit of a man and makes it become the candle of the Lord that it enlightens the inward parts Another of your lies against us is where in pag. 17. you accuse George Whitehead with deriding at mens faith in the death and bloodshed of Christ beyond the Sea for they who truely have faith and hope through Christs sufferings which reacheth within the vail that is to say Christs flesh that faith we own as knowing the Word of it to be in the heart that we have it not to fetch beyond the Sea nor from above nor from beneath but it s nigh in the heart and in the mouth And to our question which was whether the light that lighteth every man be a natural light or a spiritual light You John Horne and T. Moore answers pag. 17. 18. That that light is Christ and the light with which he lighteth men is both natural and spiritual Reply Here again you are taken in your own snare for in your saying the light is both natural and spiritual mark it is not the lights are both natural and spiritual but the light is so here you could not prove one light that is both natural and spiritual and contrary to the Scriptures have you spoken for in Christ was life and the life was the light of men which is not natural but spiritual therefore this your errour may lie upon you In pag. 18. You say That for so much as all men receive not Christ and his light therefore all have not his light in them Answ. This is a poor Argument the Spirit of the Lord and the grace of God hath appeared in many who have resisted it and not received it and a measure of it is in such to condemn them as the Kingdom of God was in the Scribes and Pharisces and yet they received it not nor Christ when they hated him And to that of Isai. 8. 20. where it is said there is no light in them John Horne saith the word in the Hebrew is sometimes used to signifie the morning and we have read it no morning in stead of no light but then saith he Christ is called the morning Star so that if there be no morning light in man there is none of his light who is the morning light Answ. Here his ignorance appears again for the light of Christ shines in darkness in some before the morning and that led some to the arising of the Day-star in their Hearts and so the light of Christ who is the morning light to some appears as a Candle in the darkness to others and is not the morning light to them until they by it see the morning in them and the light which hath shined in darkness arising out of darkness so that the light of Christ is both the evening light and the morning light Page 19. Again John Horn and Thomas Moore have accused us with telling Mr. Townsend as they call him That the light was wholly departed from him Answ. Herein have you impudently belyed us for the words against Townsend are not so spoken but that from the light of God in his

in one Nature and it is not safer for the Sheep as ye have falsely said to abide with the one then the other for neither of them cares for the Sheep no further then to make a prey upon them and all such we bear a Testimony against being redeemed out of their Nature and it is the will of Christ that his sheep should leave the hirelings for they care not for the Sheep and that they should follow him and hear his voice and Christs sheep do so they hear Christs voice who have called them from the Hirelings and Strangers and their voices they will not regard And such as Christ sends to feed his Sheep in the Pastors of Israel they are no Hirelings as ye foolishly imagine but they have freely received and they freely give and such are not greedy of filthy lucre neither do they rèceive Tithes by a corrupt unjust Law made by Apostates as thou John Horn dost but they do what they do of a willing and a ready mind and are not hired to it for a certain sum but such if they have not of their own may and do receive Food and Rayment of such as receive them and their Testimony and this is according to the Apostles Doctrine and is owned and practised amongst us the Servants of the Lord called Quakers whom ye in your rayling lying accusations liken unto Foxes and Wolves but your words shall become your own burthen and with the Spirit of the Lord we see you in the devouring beastly Nature which the Lord is against and will rent J. Horn T. Moor the people are too generally guilty too and lay themselves open to these delusions and deluders because too generally they neglect Christ and his Truth take no pleasure therein but rather in slothfulnesse formality covetousnesse pride and vanity in apparel and in many other things by which means they are in danger to perish whether they keep out of these mens snares or falls into them howbeit they are exposed to their snares thereby because they afford the deceivers matter to work upon can find many faults in them many things to accuse them of though some things that God never charged them with before these men came set themselves Masters but in many things really evil they have too great advantage and mens consciences by the effect of the law in them which is not Christ bearing witnesse that they say true in those things that they fault them in Answ. Here it is manifest by your own words that ye are the false Prophets that have not profited the people that notwithstanding all your Preachings the people still neglect Christ and his Truth and take no pleasure therein but rather in slothfulness formality covetousnesse pride and vanity in apparel and in many other things and are in danger to perish whether they come after us or not as ye confess so it is clear to all that have any understanding that ye have not stood in the Counsel of God for if you had then you should have turned the people that had received your Doctrine from the evil of their way and from the evil of their doings Ier. 23. but People have long received you and your Doctrine and yet live in their evil wayes Therefore be ashamed and stop your mouths ye Hypocrites who also speaks against covetousnesse pride and vanitie in apparel in the People and of their neglect of Christ and his Truth when many of you their Teachers are found in covetousnesse Pride and vanity in apparel wearing your Cuffs and Ribbands and White Boot-hose-tops and Teaching for Tithes and Gifts and Rewards and most of these in particular thou Iohn Horn art guilty of and in the twentieth page of your Book ye confesse your selves to be guilty of the neglect of Christ the salvation of God and the abuse of his truth so here it is plain that wherein ye have judged others ye have condemned your selves Rom. 2. 1. and made it appear that you are like Priests like People Hos. 4. 9. and we whom the Lord have redeemed out of the vanity and wickednesse of this world do judge you for your wickednesse and bear our Testimony against it in that which hath redeemed us from it and although we are counted by you to be deceivers when we judge you for your wickednesse yet the Lord owns our judging of you because it is in that which answereth the effect of his Righteous Law in mens consciences which beareth witnesse that we speak true as you our enemies are made to confesse And it was the Ministers of Christ that were manifested to Peoples consciences in the sight of God and not the deceivers for the effect of the Law in people where it was witnessed or was did not nor do not cause their consciences to bear witness to the deceivers Doctrine but against it so it is manifest that you judge contrary to the effect of the Law who have judged them to be deceivers whom mens consciences by the effect of the Law in them beareth witnesse unto And the Law in men which witnesseth unto the truth and against sin is light and it is the Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus which freeth those that believe and walk in it from the power of sin and death but those that believe not in it but hate it it beareth witness against them and their evil deeds and remains their condemnation and it is you that have set your selves masters and not we who exercise Lordship one over another and have mens persons in admiration and respect mens persons and calls and are called of men Masters contrary to Christs Doctrine but we although we be the Lords free men yet we are become servants unto many in the truth Ministring and labouring for the gathering of the scattered Seed John Horn Thomas Moore They to get a partie as the Jesuits do exposing themselves to some abuses and sufferings from the rude people make themselves more like Chri●is Ministers to the simple people Answ. We indeed suffer much for righteousness sake and for bearing our testimony against unrighteousness and you who are Teachers oft causeth our sufferings to be the greater by your lying and railing against us thereby stirring up the rude people to abuse us even as your forefathers the Priests and Pharisees did who stirred up the rude people against our Master Christ and his servants in former dayes for which the Lord will assuredly reward you in righteousness But we will in all things approve our selves as the Ministers of God in much patience in affliction in necessitie in distresses in stripes in imprisonments in tumults c. 2 Cor. 6 and our lives are not dear unto us but are freely given up to serve the living God in spreading his living truth and it is for no other end God is our witness though ye wickedly judge otherwise And then John Horn and Thomas Moore goes about to shew the cause why and how the

people are overcome and led captive by the Quakers and say John Horn Thomas Moore It s through their own carelesness and formality or also through their Teachers they are not so instructed as to be able to examine and discern them Through their carelesness and weakness therethrough in their understanding of the things of God and conceiting themselves to know and be able to judge and discern of spirits they neglect the helpfulness and gifts of brethren as also the advice of their Teachers and instructors that have the oversight of them and spoken to them the Word of the Lord Answ. Oh be ashamed to see what a bad crop is brought forth what have you been Teachers so long and taking peoples mony for this that notwithstanding they have owned you and your Doctrine and followed you so long that yet they should bring forth no better fruits then these as carelesness and formality and conceitedness and neglect and weakness in understanding the things of God ye have sown but to the fleshly part and that 's the cause you have such a corrupt crop And now we see your Kingdom is near falling who are accusing your fellow Teachers for not instructing the people so as to be able to examine and discern us and the people are led captive already who brings forth such bad fruits as these and had you spoken the Word of the Lord to them and they had believed it surely they would have brought forth better fruits but because you have but stoln from your neighbours much of what you have spoke and added your own imaginations thereto and hath run but the Lord hath not sent you that is the cause you have not profited the people though you have believed what you have spoke and have contended much for your Doctrine yet ye receiving it not from the Lord it was without life and power and so was not effectual to the people John Horn Thomas Moore Oh that all both Ministers and people would yet be awakened to search and try our wayes and to make straight steps to our goings Answ. Yes ye had need to be awakned indeed for it is manifest that ye both Teachers and people have been asleep in the night of thick darkness and you have brought forth night works neglecting Christ the salvation of God and abusing his tru●h taking no pleasure therein but rather in slothfulness formality covetousness pride and vanity in apparrel and many other things and Teachers not instructing people so as they might be able to examine and discern such as come unto them Ye sluggish Shepherds who are yet to be awakened what have you taken peoples mony and goods for all this time was it for your sleeping and dreaming awake awake ye sluggards and own the light of Christ which he hath enlightned you withal and that will shew you your dreaming and the deeds of the night and that will teach you to make straight steps to your goings and to search and try your wayes John Horn Thomas Moore Look to your selves whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the Doctrine of Christ hath not God he that abideth in the Doctrine of Christ hath both the Father and the Son Answ. Then it is manifest that you Thomas Moore and John Horn have not God and out of your own mouths ye shall be Judged for in the 20. pag. of your Book you speak of the heavy Judgement of God that he hath ordered to you to punish you for your neglect of Christ the Salvation of God and the truth of him so long abused by you now it is plain to any that have any true understanding that such as neglect Christ the Salvation of God and abuse his truth that they transgresse and abide not in the Doctrine of Christ and this you have confessed your selves to be guilty of and now your blindness and folly and confusion and wickedness is discovered by the spirit and wisdom of God which abideth in us who abide in the Doctrine of Christ and have both the Father and the Son Many more of your lies and slanders and confusion we could shew you in your Book but that they are not worth the mentioning And think not with your selves that because we reckon not up the rest of your accusations and railing against us that therefore we consent to them as truth for we know that the Lord God will judge and punish you for your perverting the truth and your railing against us and slandering and belying us called Quakers as you have done both in your Book and in many Papers of John Hornes that were posted up against us in Lin and this know that the Lord God of power hath by his mighty power and wisdom armed us to make War against you and to manifest your deceits who are found to be forgers of lyes and deceivers and in enmity against the living truth of God and the longer you proceed therein against us and the truth witnessed by us the more will you be confounded and your folly made manifest that so the honest hearted will begin to loath you and you had better have put your mouths in the dust and been silent then to have blasphemed against the truth of God and against his people as you have done leave your hypocrisie and deceit wherewith you blind the people and feed them no longer with your dreams lyes and stoln dead words least the Lord cut you off in your iniquity for a time of withering is already come upon you And as for you who are the Hearers of the said John Horn and Thomas Moor our Souls pitty you knowing you are under a vail of thick darkness and bondage as we can no otherwise conclude seeing your leaders are tryed and found so much in ignorance and confusion and we wish rather then you would remain under their darkness and deceits that you would come back to the witness of God which hath in many of you been often moving but often hath been quenched through yielding to the sleights and deceits of men and striving to get more into knowledge then into the life and power and now you are but feeding death and seeking the living among the dead while ye go to them for help who are out of the power of God in their own imaginations wherein they are confounded and if ever you come to the Fathers House and there to find the spiritual nourishment you must first return to the light of the Lord in you which you have transgressed and grieved when often it hath appeared against your ungodliness And we would not have you think much against us because we have here dealt plainly by your Teachers in discovering them for we were first occasioned to give forth this because of their false railing book against us or else we had not thus appeared in publick against them and compare this and their book together and you may soon see if you read them sincerely how deservedly we have dealt by them more then they have by us for we sent Queries to John Horn and Thomas Moor in manuscript for them to answer not expecting they would have wronged us as they have done in Print And therefore if they in like manner do again proceed against us in Print we purpose in the Lord further to have their deceits discovered publickly that the truth which is professed and dearly owned by us may be cleared and its enemies have the fruits of their own doings Post-script AND seeing that ye called Moorians hold forth That flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God yet flesh and bones may we ask you these Questions If Elijahs flesh and bones could enter into Gods Kingdom when he was taken up and if his blood could not then when and where and how and by whom was his blood taken and separated from his flesh and bones And what is become of his blood And what is it that hinders the blood that it may not enter into Gods Kingdom as well as the flesh and bones which ye say may Is the transgression of the blood greater then the transgression of the flesh and bones And shall the flesh and bones be redeemed and delivered from corruption and shall not the blood What is the Cause For although the Lord doth what he please yet doth he do any thing without a Cause And whether do you own that Doctrine that when Christ appeared amongst the Disciples after his Resurrection when the doors were shut John 20. 19. that then his body being spiritualized it glided in at the key-hole of the door Which doctrine Thomas Moor sen hath formerly preached as some hath affirmed who heard him And where do the Scriptures say That flesh and bones may in herit the Kingdom of God And where you John Horn and Thomas Moor in page 16. say That Sathan doubtless may reprove of some sins and press to some duties Now have you not here shewn your selves to be Ministers of Sathan and not of Christ And we ask you what duties or any things that are duties doth Sathan press men to Answer directly or let shame cover you which at length will come upon you for your deceits THE END