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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44833	An answer to a book called A just defence and vindication of Gospel-ministers, and Gospel-ordinances put forth by J.G. In which he pretends an answer to E.B.'s Tryal of the ministers, and other things against the Quakers. ...Given forth from him who desires the edification and satisfaction of all in the things appertaining to the Kingdom of God, Rich. Hubberthorn	Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing H3217; ESTC R219971	13,602	16

AN ANSWER To a book called A JUST DEFENCE AND VINDICATION Of Gospel-Ministers and Gospel-Ordinances put forth by J. G. In which he pretends an Answer to E. B's Tryal of the Ministers and other things against the Quakers But on the contrary hath manifested that he is altogether Ignorant of the Gospel-Ministry and Ordinance as will appear to him that reads this Answer with desire to understand the Truth and so to receive Satisfaction And instead of clearing the Truth in any Particular he hath falsly charged God Christ the Holy Spirit the Primitive Churches and the Quakers with such things of which they were never any of them guilty as will appear in the following Testimony Given forth from him who desires the Edification and Satisfaction of all in the things appertaining to the Kingdom of God RICH. HUBBERTHORN The workers of inquity have no knowledge there is no faithfulness in their mouth their inward part is very wickedness Psa. 59. and with their words they shew forth the same London Printed for Robert Wilson at the Sign of the Black-spread 〈◊〉 and Wind-Mill in Martins l'Grand 1660. An Answer to the Priests Defence WHatsoever is written or acted against the Truth and those that walk in it is but a fulfilling of the Scripture of Truth which saith The way of the wicked is darkness and they know not at what they stumble Prov. 4. 19. Although the stumbling-stone be the Light the Foundation of many generations in rejection of which many go about to build and would be approved one of which I shall here mention John Gaskin who would Defend and Vindicate the Priests their Preaching Practice and Maintenance though contrary unto Christ his Apostles his Light and his Words declared in Scripture as will appear And first That his Testimony may be received he begins in an appearance of faigned humility and begging of Pardon for his slips and impertenences and rudeness of stile used against the Quakers saying his work is not with eloquency nor humane Arts In the Examination of which we do find that he hath often slipped and used much impertenency of speech and rudeness of stile and neither Eloquency Spirituality or true Humanity in his works many of which being so plainly seen to all is accounted not worth Printing again but somthing here is mentioned by which all the other may be Compared and Judged Again divers Reasons are alleadged as a cause of Printing J. G. his Defence of the Priests first he saith The great Malice and Envy against the Ministers and the many Letters and Printed Books sent by Quakers and the great growth and encrease in Errors and because many of his old Friends and Acquaintance are as he saith seduced from the Church and to strengthen such as are wavering through ignorance and weakness and to clear himself c. and that it might be seen come into many hands Answ. He that would accomplish those things before named to wit subdue Malice and Envy and Errors and instruct the ignorant and him that is out of the way and strengthen the weak he must be such a one as is led by the Spirit and walks in the Light of Christ which is so much hated and contemned by Priests and their Defenders that first those things may be subdued in themselves and then Minister against them in others but none of those things can be done by that spirit which hath ruled in J. G. but that his latter Reasons which he saith moved him to Print may be fulfilled that 〈…〉 That it may be seen and come into many hands and that to thy own shame when they read and consider thy unlearned Lodgick wherein thou goest to prove that it is not sufficient to bring us to Heaven to be freed from fin for thou saist A Horse hath no sin and so by thy comparison a man without sin is but as a Horse so that thou hast truly said Thy work is without Eloquence or Humane Art but seeing thou hast taken in hand to put things to publick view in thy next prove who those men are upon the Earth that are without sin are not sufficient for the Kingdom of Heaven and whether was it any thing that did separate man from God but sin And was not Christ onely made manifest to take away sin And is not man perfectly Righteous when his sin is taken away and made the Righteousness of God in him Which takes it away to wit the Lamb of God which all the Nations of them that are saved must walk in his Light and it is those that hate the Light and is against freedom from sin that have no understanding of the Mysteries of God which is like the Horse or Mule whose mouth must be held with Bit and Bridle and are like the Beast that perish but they that are freed from sin are not so neither is the Horse their Comparison but herein thou hast shamed thy self and thy Ministers that they should be so ignorant as neither to teach thee better Doctrine before thou didst write nor correct thee when thou hadst written but to suffer such a thing to appear in this Nation where Light is broken forth that the state of freedom from sin is no better than the state of a Horse but as the Scriptures saith Your folly shall be made manifest unto all men which Scripture is daily fulfilling and we are satisfied in it Again to ●ndicate the Priests of England to be Ministers of the Gospel thou bringst many Scriptures whereby thou wouldst prove them to be lawfully called though they be out of the Power of God and want the Power of that which they teach page 7. As the sons of Eli thou saist were lawful Priests though they were wicked men and this is a fit comparison as thou may read in the first of Samuel 2. 12. Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial they knew not the Lord and so according to this thou hast rightly compared the Priests for though they have the name of being called yet know they the Lord no more than the Sons of Belial did Again in the same page thou saist The Scribes and Pharisees were called to teach and Judas was a true Apostle from which thou wouldst prove the Call of the Priests to be a true Call to the Ministry Answ. If the Priests did Minister as truly as the Scribes and Pharisees did that is read or speak the Scriptures truly then thou mighest exhort the People to do as the Priests say but not to do as they do but seeing that they do not truly speak the Scripture but by consequences pervert it as thou hast done in thy Book it is not therefore a good Doctrine to bid the People either do as they say or as they do because they both say falsly do falsly and as for thy comparing of them to Judas as for his being called and receiving part of the Ministry that they are not like unto him in because as yet they

never so wicked yet because they are merry in their wickedness they may s●ng lyes in the Name of the Lord by thy Argument be Justified as men doing onely that which God had commanded them And again thou maist read in Scripture Joel 1. 5. that such wicked men and drunkards were called to weep and bowl for their misery was coming upon them so the Prophet did not call them to sing Davids Psalms because they were merry in their wickednesse as thou hast done and again thou may read in Amos. 8. 3. That the songs of the Temple shall be turned into bowling and these wicked men in the Temple were Merry and by thy argument might sing Psalmes or spirituall Songs but the Prophet saith instead of singing they must bowl and come to bitter Lamentation praise is not comely in the mouth of Fooles as the wise man saith who is taught of God but the mouth of a Fool poureth forth his folly and the instruction of Fools is folly Pro. 16. 22. And this Script●●●e we se fulfilled in thee for thy instructing of Fooles and wicked men because they are merry in their wickednesse they may sing Psalmes as a Command from God and herein I have answer'd a fool according to his foly least he should be wise in his own conceit and although David calleth all Gods host and all living things made and created to praise the Lord the Sun Moon and Stars the Heavens and the Waters the Earth the Dragons and the Deeps Fire Haile Snow and Vapor Stormes and Wind fulfilling his word Mountains and Hills and fruitfull Trees all Beasts Cattle Creeping things and flying Fowles Kings of the earth and all People c. And now as David was in the Covenant he saw the Creatures as they stood in their Covenant uncorrupted and so in a fit capacity to praise the Lord only man degenerated and unrestored again into the Covenant he saw it was not comely for him to praise nor to pray nor to take Gods words in his mouth nor to speak of his Statutes so far from Justifying thy Argument that wicked men because they are merry therefore may sing Psalmes but when the Priests or people takes notice of thy book and what Logick thou hast learned to jutify the wicked in their Singing as well as the godly and how thou hast shamed both thy self and them with such foolish confusion and University Logick its like they will set thee no more awork to defend and vindicate them with such weapons Again page 89. thou saist that it is said by the Prophet prov. 21. 4. that the ploughing of the Ploughman is sinn Answ. Here thou hast belyed the Prophet and perverted his words as thou hast done the Quakers for the Prophers words is these an high look and a proud heart and the ploughing of the wicked is sin but he doth not say that the ploughing of the Ploughman is sin But who can escape the envy of slandrous tongues which accounteth lying no sin if thereby they can accomplish their own wicked ends but the truth hath found thee out and made thee manifest and the Priests had better a wanted thy defence then to be so shamed by it as they will be unless they deny both thee and it Again in the same page thou saist to hear read pray sing psalmes and giving of thanks they are works morally good being Commanded by the Lord but the person doing them being not justified they are not good to him for whatsoever is not of Faith is sin Answ. This is another piece of confusion and charging of God foolishly and falsly to say that the Lord commands those things to be done and those he commands to do them in doing of which it is not good to them but sin Where hast thou learned or where dost thou read of such a doctrine that wicked men are commanded of God to do such things which in doing is not good to them but sin Is God or Christ then the Minister of sin or commands a man to conmit sin Is not this Blasphemy Error in the highest degree And how daest thou speak of God or of his Commands or of his Obedience seeing thou thus Blasphems him in his Worship but this shall remain as a Testimony against thee many other lyes and abominations hast thou spoken against us and against God and his Truth a few of which is sufficient to make thee manifest In page 107. thou saist our Quaking fits many are of opinion that they are diabolicall by a kind of witcheraft and said thou hast heard strange relations of Enchanted Ribbons and giving drink after c. Answ. Upon the same account many was of opinion that Christ had a Devill and was a Deceiver and that the Apostles were Ring-leaders of Sects Heresyes and such strange relations might have been heard concerning the Apostles in their dayes and it seemes to thee that such reports is sufficient proofe but this is contrary to what thou hast said in an other place that thou wouldst speake nothing but according to what was written in the Scriptures And whereas thou tells of Enchanted Ribbons Is there some Ribbons that are enchanted it may be thou meaneth enchanting Ribbons but if so where didst thou ever know such a thing and for proofe thou names Gilpin and Toldervyes books which neither of them doth relate such a thing so that it is thy enmity wickednesse for there was never any such thing among the Quakers as giving Ribbans and drink after but that charge thou might haue laid upon the Priests and their Defenders for there are the most ribbons used justified till in pride they are become the Servants of the Devill and there is the giving of drink one to another untill they be enflamed and made unsensible of God and of his fear by which they are enchanted and bewitched that they doe not obey the Gospell but are given up to their owne hearts Lusts and thereby are become the Servants of sin and so free from righteousnesse Lastly not only we have been falsly accused in these and many other things by thee but even the spirit of God which is the Fountain of cleannesse is by thee charged and accused to be corrupt an defiled page 33. by passing through mans corrupt nature thou saist becomes defiled Answ. Is not this a sin against the holy Ghost which shall never be forgiven to charge the spirit to be corrupt and defiled And in this thou also chargeth both the Father and the Son to be corrupt defiled for they are one so that if one of them be corrupt the other is corrupt also and as the spirit is in the Saints so is the Father in them and the Son the hope of their glory and none of them are defiled by mans corrupt nature But there is that in man by which that which corrupteth his nature is wrought out so that man is made clean and undefiled by the spirit and that spirit is not made corrupt and defiled by Man for that is contrary to the Scripture to say that by mans nature the spirit is defiled but to say that by the spirit mans nature is cleansed and sanctified this is according to the Scripture but it is the work of Sathan and his Messengers to Blasphem God in his Temple and so account his spirit by which he leadeth into all truth an unholy thing and so thou art of the number of them which account the blood and Spirit of the Covenant an unholy thing and we seeing and knowing these things as concerning our selves we are satisfied because the Servant is not abo●e his Master for if the Master be called Belzebub and the spirit a defiled or corrupt thing well may wee be called Deceivers although we be true and falsly accused with all manner of evil according to our Masters words and these things we should bear in patience and silence as to our selves but as in respect unto others we are constrained by the uncorrupted and undefiled Spirit of the Lord to testifie to the world that their deeds are evil and to manifest the workings of Sathan in the Mystery of Iniquity which now already worketh in many justifying the wicked and condemning the Just which is abomination to the Lord which his Spirit will not bear unreproved and not onely the Just men are condemned and falsly accused but also the Just undefiled Eternal and unerring Spirit is accused by him who makes a defence for the Priests in their unrighteous Practices and Wages so by the plain Evidence and Demonstration of Truth he being made manifest to be an Enemy to God and by his wicked works and words I do Judge him not worthy of much more Answer to his Book and also I do Judge him not able to prove any of the false Accusations charged in it against us some of which is herein returned unto him again which when he doth but really weigh it and consider it may be he will sit down in silence and wait if there may be hope of his forgiveness for this not onely ignorance but wilfulness charging us the Spirit of God and his people with that of which they were never guilty for we are in the Truth unto which every tongue shall confess and by which every Opposer shall become silent before the Lord and in the Spirit of this Truth do we desire not the Di●●ruction but the Repentance and Forgiveness of our Enemies And those that do abuse us and wrong us ignorantly their sins will be sooner blotted out then those who wilfully have set their hearts and tongues to work wickedness for they shall receive the greater condemnation The knowledge and life of truth is that we desire all people may come into that by it the power of the wicked one may be taken away which so furiously worketh in the hearts of those which receives not the Truth in the love of it but brings forth floods of enmity bitterness against the Lambs of Christ but the love of God which thinketh no evil neither doth any unto another is that which when it is felt obeyed in all will dry up those floods from off the face of the Earth that there may be a place of Rest for the Redeemed and Elect Seed who onely hath the Lord and his light for their habitation and the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God for their Armour and Defence THE END