Godhead is dead because thou saist it is revealed in every man so then if that spirit in that body be not Christ without that body but both body and spirit make that man Christ Jesus And thou ownest salvation by that spirit onely without that body thou ownest not salvation by Christ O Jeffery why wilt thon deny the Lord that hath bought thee with his own blood and bring upon thy self destruction for the Godhead dyed not as I have told thee but that body was made a curse by dying that cursed death upon the Tree to take off the curse from them that believe that sacrifice for sin which was a sweet smelling savour to the Lord. By which body offered up he hath for ever perfected them that are sanctified which sacrificed body and offered up bloud if thou reject how canst thou have thy cursed sins pardoned thy defiled conscience purged for without shedding of bloud there is no remission But I will tell thee my Faith I do own salvation cometh alone by that man Christ Jesus the only Son of God who was born of that Espoused Virgin Mary who was Crucified at Jerusalem by which cursed death he did there make an attonement for all and full satisfaction to God the Father for the sins of all that believe in him from the heart and obey his holy will revealed in his word the holy Scriptures of truth that are able to make the man of God wise unto salvation 1 Pet. 2.24 Heb. 10.14 Joh. 20.31 Mat. 7.24,25 Gal. 3.13 I could mind thee with many more Scriptures if thou wouldst hearken thereunto The holy Spirit of God I own and esteem for it is that which First made me to see into my sins and my cursed estate by sin according as is made known in the Scriptures of truth 2ly It did shed the love of God abroad in my soul how that Christ had dyed for my sins 3ly He did help me to lay hold upon the hope set before me without whose help I can do nothing 4ly He did work in my Soul a cruel hatred against all known sins in thoughts words and works 5ly He did work in my Soul a great love to my God and to his Son Jesus to his Children to all known good in words and works in my self and others 6ly He did assure me of redemption of my soul and forgiveness of my sins through the bloud of my Lord Jesus that was shed upon the Cross for me 7ly He did seal home the promises of Eternal Glory to my Sonl promised in the Scriptures of truth to the Sons of God 8ly He did work in my Soul holy reformation and godly resolutions to do and obey whatever my God shall make known unto me to be his will and mind by his spirit and word the Scriptures and that unto death 9ly It did fill my Soul with praises to the God of my life night and day praising him in the spirit admiring his love to my soul in redeeming it with so great a price as the blood of his own Son 10ly The holy spirit did also comfort me and quicken me and made me greatly to rejoyce with Joy unspeakable and full of Glory the which spirit of my God still is with me and giveth me that peace no man can take from me by whose help my desire is to my God I might still be preserved and hold fast the precious faith which I have attained through the Grace of God and my Lord Jesus Christ until he shall come in flaming fire to render vengeance upon the wicked and punish with everlasting destruction from his presence them that obey not the Gospel of Christ and be admired of them that believe Thomas Manning This Testimony of mine is owned by God the Father by his Son Jesus by the holy Spirit by the holy Scriptures by the holy Prophets by the holy Apostles Thou provest thine by two of thine own Friends God the Father I know his Son Jesus I know his holy Spirit I know the holy Scriptures I know to be the mind and will of God but who these thy Witnesses be I know not but if they be Angels come from Heaven if they despise the blood of my Lord Jesus Christ or declare any thing contrary to his will revealed in the Scriptures of truth I do not own them Thomas Manning I received thy paper and thou saist as soon as thou hadst looked on a few words thou saidst thou soon espied my subtilty Friend I had no subtilty in my heart but I plainly wrote the things I own thou askest me how I can prove Christ in that body to be Christ without that body I can prove it both by Pauls testimony and also by the same spirit of God the which Paul did prove it by who told the Corinthians the Fathers drank of the Rock that followed them and that Rock was Christ and he also told the Colossians that the mystery which had been hid from ages and generations past was Christ within the hope of glory and also Christs visible appearance came in that present age but his invisible appearance had been hid from ages and generations past for Christ was with his Church in the Wilderness Again thou saist that body and spirit in that body maketh that man Christ Jesus Now the spirit in that body was the Godhead and thou saist that the Godhead dyed not and thou speakest true for so say I so then it was only that part which the Holy Ghost took from the woman the which died and not the Godhead which both was and is the spirit of God for it was God and the Woman that made the visible man Christ for he was made of a Woman made under the Law as saith the Scripture for Mary she knew no visible man Now cursed be that spirit that shall deny the blood of Christ or the end for which Christs body was offered up and blood was shed for I do believe that all the world were reconciled to God by the death of his Son and that all men were freed from their outward offerings for sin by that one offering and that after the shedding of the blood of that visible man Christ upon the Cross there was to be no more outward killing the sacrifice nor yet shedding of blood for remission of sins But this was not the flesh and the blood which Christ speaks of when he was upon the earth when he said He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood he dwelleth in me and I in him and he was then upon the earth as a man like one of us sin only excepted when he spake these words So Friend if thou knowest no other body nor blood to feed upon but that which dyed and was shed out of Christs body without the gates of Jerusalem thy Soul may perish for all the knowledge which thou hast of the Scriptures Now Christ in the days of his flesh exhorted people to believe in the Light and to bring their deeds
to the Light that so they might be made Children of the Light for he knew that they were Children of the Darkness and God he is Light and shews unto man his thoughts who said look unto me all yea ends of the earth and be saved and some of these words were spoken by the Lord in his Prophets before Christs body came into the world and the same that ever was the Saviour now is and not another for God is not changed neither is his salvation changed Again thou saist thou know est the Father and thou knowest the Son the holy Spirit Friend consider well what thou hast written and let Gods Spirit in thee try thy words whether thou hast thy knowledge of God and his Son and holy Spirit in and from the Spirit of Revelation for Christ saith no man knows the Father save the Son and he to whom the Son reveals him and Paul saith it pleased God to reveal his Son in him so then there is no true saving knowledge of neither Father nor Son but in and through the Spirit of Revelation so consider and let Gods witness judge in thee whether thy knowledge stands in the Light or in the Letter in the mystery or in the history in the word or in the words the which were given forth from the word for the words were given forth in time from the word which was before time was And so remember what the Jews said to Christ who had the Scriptures before the Gentiles how they said that they were Abrahams Children and God was their Father and they were Moses his Disciples and that God spake to Moses But they speaking concerning Christ said as for this fellow we know not whence he is and these were the blind professing Jews who had the Scriptures but they had neither heard the voice of God at any time nor yet seen his shape as Christ in plain words tells them and yet how great was their boasting and all this while they had but a blind zeal for a vail of thick darkness was over their minds and understandings Again thou saist the holy Scriptures thou knowest to be the mind and will of God then thy soul and mind and understanding they must be in the mystery and spirit of God which gave forth the Scriptures and if it be so with thee then I would desire thee to tell me these following questions 1. What is Eden and where is it and what was the Garden wherein God walked 2. What is the tree of knowledge and where it is and what is the fruit it bears and from whence doth the fruit come and what is that which feeds upon the fruit which the tree of knowledge bears and what were the eyes that were open in Adam and Eve after sin and transgression by them were committed And what were the Books which are to be opened and how many Books to be opened and what is the Vail which Paul speaks of which is to be done away and what is the enmity which God hath put betwixt the Woman and the Serpent Jeffery Bullock Friend Pauls Ministry stood in the Spirit and not in the Letter and he desired only to know Christ according to the spirit but not after the flesh for that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit is spirit as saith the spirit of God This following was given me from the Quakers to subscribe which I refused to do for reasons inserted FOr the clearing of the precious truth of God professed by us his people called Quakers from the occasion of reproach and stumbling given by Jeffery Bullock his pernicious doctrine in affirming That he neither expects Justification nor Condemnation by that Christ that dyed or was put to death at Jerusalem These are to certifie all Friends and Friendly people whom it may concern that we testifie against this Doctrine as stated by him as both pernicious and Antichristian and contrary to plain Scripture and the constant testimony faithfully born amongst us from the beginning for neither do we profess and preach two Christs nor yet own Justification by any other Christ or in any other Name but by and in the Name of that very one Christ of God to whom the holy Prophets and Apostles gave witness in the scriptures of truth who was miraculously conceived by the Holy Ghost overshadowing the Virgin Mary and was Crucified and put to death in the flesh without the Gates of Jerusalem but quickned by the Spirit whom God raised from the dead 1 Pet. 3.18 We must confess with the holy Apostles that even by him to wit that very Christ all that believe are justified from all things from which they could not be justified by the Law of Moses Acts 13.30,39 and that remission of sins Justification and Salvation as then preacht in the name of the same Lord Jesus Christ and by his Eternal power and spirit of God so the same is constantly believed and witnessed amongst us And although the best fense that we can suppose or gather as aimed at by the said Jeffery Bullock is that it is not only by the suffering and death of Christ nor by a mere literal knowledge of him as after the flesh that men can be either compleatly justified or saved from sin and death any more then the Apostles or primitive Christians were but by his life spirit and power operating in them And so by a living and spiritual knowledge of Christ as after the Spirit which though the truth of this we cannot but own and justifie yet this cannot excuse the aforecited Doctrine as laid down which denies both Justification and Condemnation by that Christ that dyed for that supposeth another Christ for that end and so two Christs And therefore the said J. B. ought to see his error and call back and recant of his words which have given occasion of stumbling in Sudbury Whereas the very Christ the Son of God is but one though he hath often and variously manifested himself from the beginning as both before he came in the flesh and in the fulness of time in the flesh viz. that body that was prepared for him to do the will of his Father in and since in spirit for the everlasting comfort and salvation of all them who believe in his name and power which by his divine Light within is livingly revealed And we confess that this Son of God our Saviour Jesus Christ our Lord was made of the Seed of David according to the flesh and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the spirit of holyness by the resurrection from the dead Rom. 1.3,4 And that that very Christ that came of Israel as concerning the flesh is God over all God blessed for ever Rom. 9.5 So that he is truly and inseparably God and Man according to the Scripture And even that very Christ who was crucified and slain hath God lifted up with his right hand to be a Prince
Antichrists Transformations within Discovered by The LIGHT within THis is given forth to all Friends and Brethren who look upon themselves to be Elders and Teachers of others who think that they have both a right and a power to be Judges in the Churches called Quakers in matters of Religion Principles and Practises which thing only belongs to God in the Worship of God in matters of Conscience Friends I do deny that man hath any Rule Power Dominion Government or Authority either given or committed unto him from the Lord as pertaining to the Conscience in things relating to the worship of God for all Power in Heaven and Earth Rule Authority and Dominion belongeth unto Christ the Light the invisible power which dwells in all Men and Women as pertaining to the Conscience and all Glory and Honour Praise and Thanksgiving is to be given by man to Christ the Light which is in them because he is the only Redeemer and the Saviour of the Souls and the Salvation of the ends of the Earth and so there is no glory to be given to man although he be born of the Light but all is to be given to Christ the Light in Man unto whom alone it doth belong who is the true Minister and hath power in himself to teach all the Sons and Daughters of men who hear his voice and obey him Wherefore whosoever doth exalt Christ the Light who is the true Minister before themselves by Christ the Light within shall those be exalted otherwise by the Light within they must be overturned for it never was Antechrist in the heart nor yet Antechrist in those which meet together to wait upon God in true silence the which brought in false Doctrine Errour and Heresie among us Quakers or other Sects whatsoever but it was Antechrist in the Priests and false Prophets which was the instrumental cause by the which the Jews of old were lead into Errour and it was Antechrist in those heaps of Teachers that lead the Churches of the Gentiles into errour in the Apostle Pauls days and so read down from the Apostle Pauls days to this day ever since the night of Apostacy came over the Churches of the Gentiles and it hath been Antichrist in and among the Gentiles Teachers the which hath had dominion over all both great and small who have given their power to the Beast Friends This is my Judgement Faith and Belief that whatsoever is written to the Churches called Quakers by either Man or Men Elders or Bodies by way of Exhortation Advice or Counsel or Admonition or by way of dehortation or for warning them of Evil in matters of Conscience which thing belongs to God it ought to be written to the Churches both in and by and from the Holy Ghost which is Gods infallible Spirit and the word of Eternal Life and also the Spirit of Revelation yea and all Declarations all Preachings and Prayings in the Churches called Quakers wheresoever it is the Holy Ghost which is to speak in every Vessel so that no Man or Woman is either to Pray or Preach or cause any thing to be Printed and sent among the Churches but what comes in and from the Holy Ghost otherwise it is not to be owned by the Churches for Moses he received the Law from the mouth of God before he delivered it to the Children of Israel and Paul he wrote his Epistles to the Churches of the Gentiles in and by and from the Spirit of Revelation and John he was in the Spirit of the Lord when he wrote to the seven Churches of Asia Wherefore your Paper to the Churches it is not to be own'd by the Churches in as much as it was written from a sight or a sence and from the senceable part and not in and from the Spirit of Revelation now whatsoever is written declared or given forth in the sight or in the sence or from the sensible part it is not to be owned for the senceable part is that which hath been in the transgression with the woman with all her sights and senses in every visible man and this is she which feeds upon the fruit the which the tree of knowledge bears for things being opened to her in the understanding by the Spirit of Truth she having received the sights and the openings Antichrist being near the mind not being kept in the Watch his work is to draw the mind from him which openeth into the mysteries which are recorded in the Book of the Scriptures which mysteries are opened to the Woman by the Spirit of Truth and thus Antichrist has cheated thousands for the Woman is the sole mind or heart in every visible Man and Woman which is accompanied with an understanding part and a knowing part and a sensible part and an affectionate part and a comprehending part for it has been the work of that old Adversary which is called the Devil in ages past to steal the mind from him which openeth into those things the which are opened by the Light within that is to say to draw the mind and inward senses from the Light into the Letter and from the word into the words and from him which openeth into the things which are opened and if Antichrist hath thus but once captivated the mind then he will soon finish his work and the Creature shall not discern it for the present for Antichrist he will bring a Vail over the understandings of Men and Women and yet they for the present cannot perceive it and thus the Woman which is one with the sensible part both in the Male and in the Female she having received the things which were opened by the Spirit of truth she assuming authority to her self to speak in the Church not from him which opens but from those things which are opened Antechrist being transformed in the mind and understanding Now this Woman she is not permitted by the Law which is Light not to speak in the Church with a vocal voice neither is she to pray in the Church but she is to return to Christ who is the Light within who daily discovers her state and condition unto her and also makes manifest her sin and her place is to obey the Light and to be made willing to dwell in silence until the Light within hath redeemed her from under the power of death and darkness within and then the power which hath redeemed her he is to speak in the Church and not the Woman but her place is to wait at the feet of Christ the Light within for she is neither to preach nor pray in the Church although she be redeemed but if she lacks any thing she is to ask her Husband at home for there is an invisible woman in every visible man and there is an invisible man in every visible woman and the man Christ Jefus who is the Light of the world he is in them both and it is he which is to speak in the Church and not the woman
particulars following First I must believe that they are as infallible as God is and that it is as impossible for them to erre as it is for God to erre Secondly That no man nor woman shall ever attain to any higher measure of the grace of God then they and that they are come to the highest Revelation that can be attainable by the Spirit of God Thirdly And that there is no more to be made known by the Spirit of God in the Sons and Daughters of men but what is already made known to them Fourthly Or if there be any thing more to be revealed by the spirit of God that God will make it known to them and to none else the which thing I cannot believe Friends I would have you seriously to take into your consideration some of your Doctrines and Principles which are commonly preached amongst us how they can stand with Gods Soveraignty Dominion and Glory that either the Seed or God should arise in man Whether the Light or Spirit Seed and God be not all one and the same thing And how came this Seed of God to be under or beneath in man And by what shall this Seed or God in man be raised again and from whence shall that power come the which shall raise up God or the Seed in Man into his Dominion again if he hath lost his Kingdom in man seeing that you preach that the Seed of God must be raised in man And whether the appearance of God in man to man by his Spirit be not for the quickning and raising of man both Soul and Body out of a state of bondage and captivity and not for the raising of God or the Seed out of bondage or captivity for the Light or the Creator hath not been in bondage and captivity but the whole Creation that God made in man that hath been both in bondage and captivity being under the power of Darkness for God hath not lost but the Gospel hath been hid in God whilst man and woman hath been lost You see and if you can either vindicate or justifie some of your Doctrines or Practices and also your Authority either by the spirit of truth or the Scriptures of truth or the form of sound words otherwise it is high time for you to lay aside your preachings among the people called Quakers and come and sit down with them in silence again Let the Eleven Elders or any of them or any that join with them write me an Answer for the vindication both of your Authority Doctrines and Practices For man in the beginning was created in the Light and the Darkness was near him but yet the Light had dominion over him and it was his habitation but Adam went out of Eden in the day of his transgression and then God cursed the Serpent and he also judged man for his disobedience and he was driven out of the Garden because of his sin and transgression but still God kept his dominion in the Garden over man to his condemnation and he placed the flaming Sword at Edens gate to keep the way of the tree of Life against the first man Adam so long as he did abide in a state of sin and transgression Friends the Kingdom of Heaven is within all men and women and Heaven is above Hell and the Light is above Darkness in all the Sons and Daughters of men and Life is above death and truth is above error and God that made the world is in the world and above the God of the world and the Light is the higher power and Gods Throne is above the Devils in all the Sons and Daughters of men yea in the wickedst of men the seed in both man and woman it is both God and Christ and it is above the seed of the Serpent in all as he is in himself and his dominion is over all who is God blessed for ever The seed is to redeem and not to be redeemed the soul is to be awakened and to be quickned by the seed that never sinned and to be raised from under the power of death and to be brought up into dominion by the spirit of Life over the power of death for the seed within must bruise the Serpents head within and deliver the Soul from under the power of death within for the seed is to quicken and not to be quickened and God is to raise and not to be raised Gods Throne is established in Justice and Judgement in wicked men over them to their condemnation because of their sin and transgression and his Throne is also established in love and mercy over them that obey him The Light is to descend and the day spring from on high is to visit the souls of the Sons and Daughters of men for they are to be lifted up by the arm of Gods power revealed from Heaven for man had his habitation in God once but man lost his habitation in God but God kept his habitation in man for the power of God in man he is above the Devils power in man for God that made man is in him and man is not above his maker nor the Creature is not above his Creator God who made all things by the word of his power and man also in his power this God was never disthroned but man was dispossessed of his habitation in God in the day of his transgression against God for the Mount Sion is above Mount Sinai and the heavenly Jerusalem is above the house of Bondage and God who is the Judge of all he is in all yea and above all that is in man or ever was in man who is God comprehended in himself blessed for ever Amen For God never lost his Kingdom nor Dominion in man although the Devil and man both lost their first habitation in God and the Devil is never like to enjoy his again but there is hopes for man and woman through their believing in the Light and receiving of the truth for them to receive life again Wherefore I do own the Light the Life the spirit and power in man to be both the resurrection and the life as he is in himself and he is also both man and womans redemption as by his power within their souls comes to be raised from death to life again but I deny the resurrection of the power and spirit of God in man or woman or that ever the seed which is Gods spirit and power that it ever came under the Devils power in man or woman or that ever the Devil had dominion over God wherefore God is not to arise in man nor woman but we are to be raised by the arme of his power revealed from Heaven within for the man-child hath been caught up to God in this long night of Apostacy which hath been over the Gentiles wherefore Christ the Light within stands in need of no blessing for he is everlastingly blessed and happy in himself without either beginning of days or end of life
and a Saviour Acts 5.30,31 And God will judge the the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained Acts 17.31 So we must confess with the Apostles that to us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and we in him and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things and we him And further we cannot own any such Doctrine or Words by whomsoever spoken as tend to undervalue the sufferings death and blood of Christ Rom. 5.10 for not only a reconciliation was declared and made through his death but all his suffering and his being the one universal Offering and Sacrifice did contribute to mans redemption and the salvation to all that truly believe in his Name Heb. 2.17 though without the washing of regeneration and being born again of the living word and spirit of life none do really partake of eternal salvation or that redemption which is obtained through the blood of Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity This is a true Copy Giles Barnardiston John Cutler William Welch Joseph Ridlesdale Samuel Cooper John Cornwell Friends What you have written in contradiction to my words it is both Romish and Antichristian Doctrine and contrary to the Scriptures of truth and form of sound words Now it is no where written in the Scriptures that we shall either be Justified or Condemned by that Christ which dyed without the Gates of Jerusalem but it is written by Grace ye are saved and by Grace ye are justified and it is also written by the Light of the world ye are condemned and not by Christ that dyed without the Gates of Jerusalem Now the same spirit which quickned that body of Jesus when it lay under the earth yea and the same God that raised up that body do I own to be both my Justifier and also my condemner if I sin against him Yea the same God which raised up Lazarus out of the Grave who dwelt in Christs Temple when it was upon the Earth the same God do I own salvation by that is he the which both did and doth shew unto man his thoughts who said look unto me all ye ends of the Earth and be saved for I am God and there is none else and he did not bid the ends of the earth look to him that was to come but unto him who was already in them and did shew them their thoughts and this was not Christs outward visible appearance but it was Gods invisible power which was in the Sons and Daughters of men the fulness of which power and spirit dwelt in Christs body when it was upon the Earth And this is God who was in the beginning and also before the beginning and also without beginning of dayes or end of life and this is the salvation of the ends of the earth who never dyed otherwise you must conclude the Godhead dyed as well as the visible man Christ the which is blasphemy for any to affirm and it is quite contrary to the Scriptures the which saith that he through the Eternal Spirit offered up himself a sacrifice once for all and he also gave up his Soul an Offering for sin And I do also believe there is something of God in me that is both without beginning of days or end of life and this is a measure or manifestation of the Spirit of God the fulness of which dwelt in Christs body when it was upon the Earth and this is both my God and Saviour and Justifier if I obey him and also my condemner if I sin against him Now the Law of Moses that was never written to the Gentiles neither had the Gentiles any command from God for the observation of it therefore the Gentiles they could never be Justified by it because they had no command for the keeping of it but on the contrary the Gentiles were reproved by Paul for the observation of it Now God was in all those visible appearances amongst the Jews yet it was by his invisible power by which he wrought those signs and wonders amongst the Egyptians and it was by his invisible power by the which Aarons rod budded the pot of Manna was preserved And it was the Lords invisible Glory which filled the Tabernacle and unto Israel he appeared as a Fire by night and as a cloud by day and after this God spake to Moses within the cloud and after these things he invisibly appeared ond dwelt in Solomons Temple and then at last the Holy Ghost overshadowed the Virgin and God prepared a Temple for himself by his invisible spirit and power the which Temple was the Son of God by generation from God in which Temple there dwelt the fulness of the Godhead bodily and when the Son of God or the Lamb of God had finished his testimony in this world he then did through the Eternal Spirit which dwelt in his Temple offer up himself a sacrifice once for all Then was all outward Temple worship ended for the glory of God out of Solomons then departed For then the Vail of the Temple was rent in twain and also the worship was ended although the Lord once gave the Jews a command for the observing of it But as for the Gentiles they never had no command from God for the practising of those things therefore what they did they did it by imitation and not by commandment Now Christ he was not the Son of David as by generation from David as he was a visible man for Mary she was a Virgin and knew no visible man but Christ he was the Son of David by generation from God he being begotten by the spirit of God in the Womb of the Virgin and this was the spirit of God in David from which spirit David received power to be regenerated and born again and this was the flesh of David and this was Davids Lord. For Christ he was not the Son of a visible man but he was the Son of a visible woman he being begotten by an invisible power and spirit now if salvation be by that Christ that dyed without the Gates at Jerusalem then are all the Gentiles perished that were in the world before that body came into the world for I do not read that ever any of the Gentiles saw the coming of that visible man Christ whenas the world had continued near four thousand years before he came into the world yea all the Jews that were in the world before that body came and did not see the coming of that body nor own it when it did come they likewise are perished yea all both Jews and Gentiles the which have been in the world since those dayes who have not owned him to be the Christ and the Saviour of the world who dyed without the Gates of Jerusalem they likewise are all perished but and if salvation be by him that shews unto man his thoughts and reproveth man and also convinceth him and condemneth man and woman for
Bullock in Sudbury I do disown my self to be a Member of the visible Church called Quakers for these particular reasons and causes following neither do I desire to have unity nor to seek to have peace with the Church in those actions wherein they set up themselves as Judges among or above their Brethren as the Eleven Elders called Quakers have done First I disown all superiority of men Ministers or Elders in the Churches called Quakers or any who assume Authority to themselves above the rest of the Members to judge and determine things in matters of conscience the which thing only belongs to God in every one 's own particular 2. I disown my self to be a member of that Body or Church which saith He that is not justified by the witness of God in Friends is condemn'd by it in himself 3. Which saith That none are to Minister or Preach but such as are reconciled to the Church and have the approbation of the Elders and Members 4. Again I do disown both the censures and judgement of that body or Church who look upon themselves that they have both a right and power to judge of errours and yet have not power to convince the parties of their errors before they pass judgement upon them for those things which they call errors for Christ he convinceth both man and woman of their evils before he either judgeth them or condemneth them for their evils 5. Again I do disown my self to be a Member of that Church who will not admit me to take the liberty of my Conscience in matters of Doctrine and Principles in the Worship of God the outward life and conversation that being blameless and I being satisfied in my own conscience that the thing is both right and true which I do own 6. I disown my self to be a Member of that Church who will not admit me to believe and speak what God by his Spirit makes manifest in me for the Articles of your Church Faith and Belief they are concealed from me so that in plain English words with sense I cannot them neither read nor understand so that I question whether this practice of the Church doth not surpass plain Popery for they have given forth the Articles of their Faith as concerning Doctrine 7. I disown the resurrection of the power or the arising of the Seed or God in man or that ever the Seed or God was either in Captivity or Bondage or that it was ever lost or that the Light in man was ever blinded or the Image of God defaced or that the Seed hath been under the corrupt heart of man or that ever Darkness were over it or that ever God lost his Kingdom in man as he was in himself 8. Again I disown that to be any true Ministry for God who in their declaration do exhort both Friends and other people to come to a sense and to wait in a sense and to abide in a sense and continue in a sense for God is not a sense neither is his spirit a sense for the senses are things that were made by the power of God and in the power which made them they are to be exercised and so such Doctrine it is not only unsound but it is contrary to the Scriptures and also the spirit of truth and form of sound words for it is old Antichrists Doctrine the which Sathan brought in among his Ministers in this long night of Apostacy among the Gentiles when the Churches lost the injoyment of the Grace Manifestation or Revelation of the Spirit of God then they preached from a light and a sense for the Beasts of the Field they have both senses and knowledge and what preheminence hath a man above a Beast if he be not in God that made him for all things the which a man enjoys below the Light they are accompanied both with vanity and also vexation of Spirit for there is no other God Saviour Angel nor Spirit to be known in and amongst the Sons of Men but the Light that shews unto man his thoughts besides the Spirit and Power of Darkness and what God made in man in the day of his first Creation 9. Also I disown my self to be a Member of that Church who are gone from Christ the Light of the world within them the power which God revealed from Heaven in this our age and generation wherein alone Life and Salvation Justification and Condemnation is to be known and are returned back again to the professors Christ and Saviour who dyed without the Gates of Jerusalem who make it their work to declare against all salvation both by God and Christ the Light within the which the professors of this our age and time do 10. I disown all yoaks of bondage dictates or impositions whatsoever I disown your printing of several Books and imposing them upon all Friends Meetings throughout this Nation and enjoyning them to take them off a thing that I never heard of before amongst any people 11. I disown your enjoyning one Friend to match with another Friend or else you will not admit them to come together whenas God hath made all Nations of one blood and so remember that Moses took an Ethiopian woman to wife contrary to the command of God and yet God justified him for it and he also condemned both Aaron and Miriam for speaking against Moses for so doing Again the two Sons of Naomy they either of them took a Moabitish woman to wife and I never read they were reproved for their so doing and Ruth she proved a good woman So Friends I leave you to the witness of God that is in you for I little thought that ever Antichrist would have appeared with such an old Vizard as to raise up a body of Judges among us Quakers in matters of Religion and Conscience whenas we had suffered so much already by outward Judges because we made use of the liberty of our Consciences in the things of God Friends a thing which was never practiced among the primitive Christians Friends 1. What is the Tree of knowledge as it is in it self and what is the fruit it bears and from whence doth the fruit come and what is that which feeds upon it seeing it is desirable to make one wise and whether the fruit be all the same now as it was in the beginning 2. What was the Eden wherein the first man Adam was placed and what was the Garden wherein God walked after Transgression entred when he spake to Adam in the cool of the day 3. What is the Enmity which God put between the Woman and the Serpent and between his Seed and her Seed and what was or is the Woman 4. What was the Man that was drove out from God into the Earth because of Transgression seeing the visible body did remain in the visible Creation after his transgression as visible as it did before 5. What is the Image of God or what is the Soul of Man for there
can sit down together in silence with your Hats on and as every ones mind is turn'd into the Spirit of Truth and also kept under subjection by the power of God here every one is kept in the true worshipping of God although there be never a word declared nor spoken and yet the men may keep their Hats on if they please but and if any amongst you pretend to be moved by the Spirit to go to prayer then both Men and Women they either stand up or else they kneel down and the Men they all pull off their Hats which owns your form of prayer and herein you do both worship Reverence and Adore the form outwardly and the words more then you do the word of Life in your own particulars wherein alone the Souls salvation is placed and thus it hath been the work of the Spirit of Antichrist throughout all ages to lead people to give more honour to the form of founding Brass or tinkling Cymbals more then to the power of God that 's in them wherein alone mans happiness stands So Friends I would have you to vindicate this practice of yours if you can otherwise it is high time for the Quakers in general to lay aside their worship in reverencing and adoring the form outwardly But yet I would have none that read this Book to rejoyce because that I have written against the Quakers Ministers but let those that think they stand take heed lest they fall Friends whatsoever is written or given forth from me in this Book which is on my part it is written either from a measure of that Spirit which hath power to open my understanding and also the Book of the Scriptures or else it is given forth from Sathan in me transformed into an Angel of Light wherefore to the Light that shines in all your Consciences that read this Book do I refer this Book for Judgement But the Quakers from their general Meeting say That I writ from an erronious and dark Spirit but that lies upon them yet to prove I have yet another Book that is written in and from the Spirit of God the tendency of which Book is for the overthrowing of all Antichrists Ministers in this Nation the which will abundantly tend to the Honour and Glory of God and also greatly to the outward advantage of the chief Men of this Nation and also will bring a Blessing both upon them and their generation If any one has freedom to be at the Charge to Reprint this Book to give it away when he hath done he may freely do it Jeffery Bullock This following is an Abstract of what George Bishop writ against that PAPER of ORDERS aforementioned which was subscribed by Eleven of your Ministers viz. George Whitehead John Whitehead Thomas Green Thomas Briggs Alexander Parker Josiah Cole Richard Farnsworth Thomas Loe. Stephen Crisp John Moon James Parkes IN the Apostles dayes were Pastors Teachers Elders c. but in this day the Spirit it self is the Pastor Teacher Elder c. So that if the Spirit move any to Declare or Speak that is the Apostle Teacher Elder c. So that we have not now things in the disposition of Persons nor according to Persons but in or according to that power which moves in every one which being kept too preserves out of the Apostacy so I know no Pastor Teacher Elder c. But as I find moving in any to any of these things for that is the Elder the Apostle Teacher c. and that which would be otherwise then this leads into the Apostacy and will seek to bring dark night in again and so will place the Thing to the Person and not the Person to the thing and for my part if that day should prevail or those things which Your PAPER seems to hold forth and inforce I have no other Expectation but that the same exercise we shall receive at your hands as we received at the hands of those who would have held us in Captivity in the day that the Lord first visited us The Seed is come and the Heir in many who is not to be under Tutors and Governours which must not be limited to turn unto which or for the good of which the Ministry was sent and in which it is to end it being the end of the Ministry unto which its Crown is to be laid down as to that which is worthy and this is no derogation to the Ministry Now for You because You have Ministred and the presence of the Lord hath been with You for the good of those that are to be Heirs of Salvation to think to settle Your self in the place of the Heir and to inforce Your Orders as instead or over that this is not to allow that the Seed is Come or that it is of age for to abide in the House for ever You must not think that because the Lord hath wrought by You that therefore he will not work otherwise This is the Error into which all have fallen that are turned from the Truth Therefore seek not to undervalue that to which You were sent to Minister nor endeavour to keep under the Seed for that will Break You to pieces The Revelation of God is to his Seed and his Secrets he reveals to it for which he made the World and for whose sake it is continued and now the Seed is raised to reign over all which will Cast You out and the Parable of the Husband-man will be fulfilled upon You. It is my Love that gives me this plainness of speech for I am Jealous of every thing that may bring dark Night over again or that may hinder Your Work or lose Your Reward with the Lord for the Son must abide in the House for ever but not the Servant therefore take heed how You set up Your Laws and Constitutions over his Dominion or how You take upon You to make Laws to his Dominion who lives for ever Many have attempted it and have been Broken to pieces and if You do the same the same will be Your Portion from the Hand of the Lord. The END