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A30991 A testimony against Jeffrey Bullock, his antichristian and foolish pamphlet stiled Antichrist's transformation within discovered by the light within wherein his perverse spirit, darkness and whimsical conceits are reprehended by the true light. Barnadiston, G. (Giles), d. 1680. 1676 (1676) Wing B855; ESTC R28351 10,496 16

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A TESTIMONY AGAINST Jeffery Bullock HIS Antichristian and Foolish Pamphlet STILED Antichrist's Transformations Within Discovered by the LIGHT WITHIN Wherein his perverse Spirit Darkness and Whimsical Conceits are Reprehended by the TRUE LIGHT Romans 1. 21. Because that when they knew God they glorified him not as God neither were thankful but became vain in their Imagination their Foolish Heart was darkned Vers 22. Professing themselves to be wise they became Fools Printed in the Year 1676. A TESTIMONY AGAINST Jeffery Bullock HIS Antichristian and Foolish Pamphlet STILED Antichrist's Transformations Within Discovered by the Light Within HAving lately seen a Book printed by J. B. intituled Antichrist's Transformations Within discovered by the Light Within this Testimony arose in my Heart That Antichrist's Transformations within is setting and would set it self above the Light within in such as have departed from it in themselves amongst whom is this J. B. with some others who went out from us because they were not of us but went out and so are made manifest who had they continued in the Light they had not been pushing at us and it for such are at Unity with the Light and in it in sweet Fellowship Peace and Communion one with another and there is no Occasion of stumbling in them because they walk in the Light And these have been much opposed since they were a People gathered by the Light in it to walk and the Enemy hath laboured alwayes to disperse their gatherings and to hedge up their Path and when the National Priests and others of all sorts with their Weapons could effect nothing then have there arose some amongst our selves who have spoke perverse things to draw after them and so this is no new thing neither would we have any startled or make a wrong Judgment concerning us or the blessed Light because thereof and so make their Bonds strong for so you may read it was in the Primitive Times And those are more subtil then others in that they have known something of the Openings of the Truth whilst in their first Love Tenderness and Lowliness unto which it did open which State they having lost have made use thereof to make War against the Light and the Dwellers therein and the Knowledge has pust such up who have fed there and departed from the Grace that humbleth and keepeth humble out of Contention and Strife and Enmity where these dwell who speak Evil of Dignities and Despise Government and would pretend to give Honour to the Light but dishonour and dis-regard them that are the Messenger and were the Bringers of the Glad-tidings thereof to their Ears who ha●e turned many to Righteousness who do and shall shine forever and ever And this Subtilty is seen and this transformed Angel of Light is discovered though he come in that Name and under the Pretence of Light crying out against Man and calling it Man's Power and Man's Authority as divided from the Lord's Power and his Authority even in those that are begotten of it and live upon it and act by it and judge the World through it and this i● not to honour the Light which has honoured them that have honoured it and given them Power which hath reached through them even to Thousands who are their Witnesses they have used it to Edification and not to Destruction Neither have such forced any or exercised Dominion over the Consciences of any as Rome and other Chuches have done by their Coercive power and Penal Laws so none like to be so ensnared by their Power and Authority given them of God to judge Error and Blasphemy and whatever rises up that is of a contrary Nature to the pure Light and peaceable Spirit of Righteousness which has brought us forth a People to his Praise amongst whom is the Spirit of Judgment and a sound Mind who have the Mind of Christ and will not be divided from their Husband their Maker nor let his Judgments depart from his Law that he has placed in their Hearts and his Righteousness that he put in his Spirit in their Inward Parts which now goeth forth to judge Unrighteousness and Filthiness as well of Spirit as Flesh which makes the filthy Dreamers that despise Dominion angry and causes them to vent their Confusion Blasphemy and Darkness to the manifesting their own Shame as J. B. has done because Judgment is gone forth against him for denying that Christ that dyed at Jerusalem to be the Judge and Saviour who having denyed him in his Workings for our Salvation we cannot think it strange to see him inveighing against the Ministers and Elders and the Form and Order in the Church established by the Lord and his Power in them wh●ch disowns his Disorder and Informings from Satan's Transformings against the Light within his People which can never lessen the Fame and Glory of the true Ministers or their Power and Authority in the Churches amongst which the Lord has given them a Name who as he sent his Son into the World so hath his Son sent them and hath sanctified them through the Truth that they may be one as the Father is one and the Glory which the Father gave him he hath given them though J. B. grudges them it and that which they have they return unto him who is the Giver God blessed fo●ever Thy Judgment is thou sayest and believest That whatever is writ to the Churches by Men Elders ought to be written by the Holy Ghost whether it be Exhortation or Counsel Admonition Warning of Evil c. in Matters of Conscience which things belong to God So then they have Power in the Holy Ghost to admonish and warn in things relating to Conscience according to thy Judgment but we may go something further as well as our Brother Paul who wrote to the Churc●es Advice and Counsel and said He spake by Permission and not by Commandment and sometimes not the Lord but He spake and so his Faith and Judgment herein was diverse from thine and so is ours And the Paper to the Churches thou sayest is not to be owned because it was writ from a Sight or a Sense or Sensible Part and not from the Spirit of Revelation As if that implyed Contradiction as if the Spirit 's Revelation put out Sight and Sensibility and so thou wouldst have Blind Elders and Sensless Ministers and is not this from Satan's Transformings in thee and has he not led thee here into the Ditch for did not those that spoke forth the Spirit 's Revelations speak from a Sight and a Sense and from that Part in them that was made sensible of the Revelation and were not the Prophets called Sears and were they not to declare what they saw and did they not speak from the sight they had of the Mind of the Lord and were not they sensible of what they declared And did not the Apostle declare what he had seen with his Eyes and his Hands had handled and what he had tasted of