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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30558	Truth defended, or, Certain accusations answered cast upon us who are called Quakers by the teachers of the world, and the people of this generation with a clear discovery who are the false prophets and when they came in, and how they may bee known, and who they are that deny Christ and that preach another gospel ... / by one who is a labourer in the vineyard ... Edward Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.; Mowgill, Edward.	1656 (1656)	Wing B6050; ESTC R23840	18,605	24

life and power we witness these things in the eternal substance having Passed through the earthly figures which was but to stand for its time by the eternal have we been led by the command of it within us and not by tradition from the Scripture without us And we deny all such who have taken up these things in their own wills by conforming the outward man to the outward letter have not entered in at the door True preaching we own do witness it wch is the cross of Christ and the power of God unto salvation or condemnation it is foolishness to the world and its wisdom now as ever it was we deny all speaking of imiginations from the Scripture which is in the wisdom of the world and which stands in the will of man limited to a set-time or day or place Prayer by the spirit and in the spirit we own and witness which is not limited to a time and place And we deny all the worlds formal customary preaching and praying for a pretence Baptisme we own and witness which is with one spirit into one body into the death of Christ and we deny all baptisms which are imagined and imitated by conforming the outward man to the outward letter which is but a likeness of the true baptism communion we live in which is in the light by the spirit which will endure eternally and we deny the worlds imitation which is in word and declaration and visible carnal things which will pass away Singing which is with the spirit and with understanding of the redeemed of the Lord we own and witness but the worlds singing in rime and meeter proud men singing That they are not puft in minde and prophane men singing That the Law of God is dear to them this singing we deny for it must be turned into howling the Lord hath said it And here again I charge it upon the teachers of the world that they deny the substance and power of what Christ commands his saints to practice by upholding their own imitations and so deceiving the simple but where the substance is witnessed the figure is denyed and the false imitations are discovered and denyed and mans free-will we we do deny for the will of man shall never e●ter to God 〈◊〉 leads out from God into the lust and into the flesh and keeps in the power of the Devil and man hath free-will unto that which is evil but not to that which is good and all who follow Christ the light of the world must deny their ovvn vvil and take up the cross of Christ vvhich is to the Will and vvalk in the light contrary to the vvil in the strait vvay vvhich leads unto life vvhich is out of the vvill of man in the vvill of God vvhich the vvill of man doth resist and oppose And I charge it upon the teachers and professors vvho do not vvitness the daily cross of Christ that they live in their ovvn free-vvil and holds it up and are led by it into pride and covetousness and the lusts of the flesh vvhich stand in the vvill and here they are guilty of that themselves vvhereof they falsly accuse us living in their ovvn free-vvil and vvalks not in the daily cross of Christ And self-righteousness we have denied and have seen it in the same light vvhich Isaiah did to be as filthy rags and vve declare against it and against them vvhich live in it for self must not be saved it is accursed from God it is vvholly unrighteous and makes the best of actions so and is and must be cast out from God Christ Jesus made manifest and revealed in us is our righteousness and ●elf is judged and condemned by him vvho is made unto us righteousness neither do vve teach people to labour in their ovvn strength to obtain life but do direct people to the light of Christ vvithin them vvhich vvalking in vvill be strength to them to lead them to life the light vvhich is of Christ to vvhich vve direct all to vvait in to be taught by it vvil load out of self-righteousness and from under the povver of self to vvitness the povver of God to lead and to act to vvitness Christ Iesus revealed the righteousness of God and the church vvhich is in God vvhich is the body of Christ vvhereof Christ is head vve vvitness and are members of it gathered and joyned by the eternal spirit and not by tradition in the wisdome of man And we deny all the worlds Churches whereof they were made members by visible things without and gathered by traditions and not by the spirit whereof the Serpent is head and not Christ and which is the body of Antichrist some of whom commits Idolatry in an Idols-temple and the Ministry of this church we deny for it stands in the will of man and the Ministers of it are such as all the servants of the Lord witnessed against the churches the ministry and the ministers are contrary to God but the ministry which is to the seed which is out of the will of man we own and witness which ministers life unto life and death unto death and divides the word aright judgement to the fat and to the strong and feeds the hungry and looseth the bars of wickedness and breaks not the bruised reed nor quencheth the smoaking flax this Ministry we deny not but are friends unto it and who are ministers here we have union withal but proud men and such as are called of men master are cast out of this Ministry and are Ministers to the body of Antichrist and know not the mystery of the Ministry of Jesus Christ which is to the spirit in prison Magistrates and magistracie we deny not but do give respect unto for conscience sake for who bears the sword of justice who use their power to be a terror to the wicked and for the praise of them that do well are ministers of God and we desire that there were more magistracie here and that the magistrate would more use his power to be a terror to lyers to swearers to drunkards to railers to false accusers and to proud men and oppressors this we are friends unto but to such as act by their own wills in corrupt Laws and do thereby violence to the innocent and strengthens the hands of evil doers we cannot be subject but choose rather then to transgress the Law of God which is written in our hearts by submitting to such mens wills and Laws to suffer by the corrupt wills of men under corrupt Laws for a moment And thus I have answered those false accusations which are cast upon us and do declare it to be the same spirit in the Teachers and people of this generation which accuseth us a● it was in the Scribes and Pharisees which accused Christ and his disciples And this the Scripture witnesseth unto as they did unto him so would they do unto us A further Answer to that Accusation of

accused falsly and to be slandered by being called deceivers and seducers by the generation of chief Priests and Pharisees in which generation are the teachers and professors of this age who have a form of godliness but deny the power Christ was called a deceiver and a blasphemer and the Apostles were called Movers of sedition hereticks and turners of the world up-side down by them who professed in word what Christ was in substance what the Apostles witnessed and so it is now We who are scornfully called Quakers do live in and declare forth no o●her thing but the substance of what the Priests have preached upon and the professors have talked upon in their carnal mindes by their imaginations He is a false prophet and a deceiver which hath not the word from the mouth of the Lord but takes that which the Lord spoke to another and calls it his and useth his tongue and saith the Lord saith it when the Lord never spake to him and here are the teachers of the world themselves guilty of that whereof they falsly accuse us for they take the Prophets words Christs and the Apostles words to talk upon but have not received the word from the mouth of the Lord and their prophesie and preaching would soon be ended if they had not the Scripture which is other mens words and that which was spoken to others to speak their imaginations from and these are the false Prophets and Deceivers which run and are not sent which speak to others pretending to be sent of God but walking contrary to all that ever God sent to declare his Name in former generations and so are known to us by their fruits having no example from the Prophets Christ nor his Apostles for their practice but do walk in the example of the false prophets of Israel of the scribes and pharisees and of the false brethren O foolish people which have eyes and see not which have hearts and do not understand Is the Lord changed from what he was Were they false prophets and deceivers in Isaiahs time which he was sent to cry out against which sought for their gain from their Quarter and are not your teachers false prophets now which act the same things were they false prophets deceivers in Ezekiels time which he was sent to cry against that fed themselves with the fat and clothed themselves with the wool and made a prey upon the people and are not your teachers false prophets and deceivers now which act the same thing Were they false prophets in Micahs time which he was sent to cry out against which preached for hire and divined for money and cryed peace to them that put into their mouths but prepared war against them that did not and are not your priests false priests and prophets which act the same things VVere they deceivers of the people in Christs time which he cryed woe against which were called of men Masters and which had the chief place in the assemblies and which stood praying in the synagogues and which went in long robes and which loved greetings in the markets and are not your teachers deceivers of the people now which are found acting the same things VVere they false teachers and false brethren in the apostles time which they declared against which through covetousness with feigned words made merchandise of the people and went in the way of Balaam for gif●s and rewards and preached for filthy lucre and which Paul saw come and coming in his dayes which were proud men covetous men self-willed and fierce men heady high minded men having a form of godliness but denying the power which alwayes taught people but none were able to come to the knowledge of the truth under their teaching and are not your teachers false teachers now who walk in the same steps To the light in all consciences I do speak which wil witness the truth a sottish and ignorant people which cannot discern who the false prophets and deceivers and false teachers are the Lord is the same as ever he was and his spirit is no whit changed VVas it once an abomination to the Lord in the false pries●● and prophets of Israel to seek for their gain from their quarter and to feed themselves with the fat and clothe themselves with the wool and make a prey upon the people to preach for hire and to divine for money and are not these things and they that uphold them abomination to him now Did the spirit of the Lord in his servants declare against these things then and against them that upheld them then and must not the same spirit where it is made manifest declare against these things and against them that uphold them now VVas it once an abomination in the sight of Christ in them to be called of men master and to have the chief places in the assemblies and to stand praying in the Synagues c. and are not these things an abomination to him now in whom they are upheld Did Christ cry vvoe against such things and against them that upheld them then and must not the spirit of Christ where it is made manifest cry wo against such things and against them that uphold them now were these marks of false teachers then to make merchandise of the people and to go in the way of Balaam for gifts and rewards and for filthy lucre and to be proud covetous heady ●●gh-minded self-willed and fierce men and are not they 〈◊〉 teachers now which bear these marks Did the Apo●●les give warning to beware of such and to turn away from 〈◊〉 then and must not the same spirit where it is made ma●ifest give warning to beware of such and to turn away from 〈◊〉 now We witness to have received according to measure the spirit of the Prophets from which they spoke and the spirit of the Apostles from which they spoke which is Christ made manifest in us and happy are all they that receive our testimony For by the same Spirit of Christ do we declare against these abominations now as the holy men of God did then for God and his Spirit is the same as ever was and what he once hated he hates for ever and no other Christ do we declare forth which we witness to be made manifest within but that Christ which dyed at Jerusalem which suffered by the chief priests and Elders of the people he was and is the true Christ which said he was the light of the world and was the Light which had enlightned every one that comes into the world and which said Except a man would deny the world and take up his daily cross and follow him he could not be his disciple and which cried wo against them which were called of men masters and that had the chief places in the assemblies and that stood praying in the Synagogues c. and they who denyed him to be the light of the world and which took not up the cross and

which were called of men masters and had the chiefest places in the assemblies and stood praying in the synagogues and went in long robes these were Anti-christs and were acted by a contrary spirit then the true Christ And here again I charge all the teachers and people in the presence of the Lord God who deny Christ to be the light in every one which reproves for sin and who are called of men masters and stand praying in the synagogues and go in long robes and who uphold such things and who take not up the daily cross of Christ but live at liberty in their wills and desires that they are antichrists and that their spirit is not the spirit of the true 〈◊〉 which died at Jerusalem but the spirit of a false christ and so they are guilty of that themselves whereof they falsly accuse us and the same Christ do we witness which the saints of old witnessed whose blood cleansed them from all sin and i● whose power they had power over sin death and hell And here again I charge the teachers and people who say that the saints must not be cleansed from sin nor cease to commit sin while they are on the earth that the Christ which the● profess is not the Christ which dyed at Jerusalem but a ●●●●rit contrary and not the Christ which the Saints witnessed and all the people are blinde which cannot see these things Did the true Christ once say he was the light of the world of every man that comes into the world and is that his spirit in the teachers and professors now which saith Every man hath not the light of Christ in them was that the true Christ which said Except you take up my cross daily you cannot be my disciples and is that his spirit in the teachers people that hath its liberty live in pride in lust in vanity their own wills was that the true Christ which cried wo against them that were called of men master and that had the chief place in the assemblies and stood praying in the synagogues c. and is that his spirit in the teachers and people which act and uphold those things was that the true Christ which the saints witnessed by whose blood they were cleansed from sin and had power over sin and is that his spirit i● the teachers and people which saith the saints must not be cleansed from sin nor cease to commit sin while they are o● earth Oh blinde and ignorant people who cannot discer● between the true Christ and antichrist which is contrary to Christ which leads now to act and speak contrary to what the true Christ once acted and spoke and no other gospel do we preach but that which the apostle preached which they received not from nor by man but by the revelation of Jesus Christ which was contrary to man and which suffered by man for the preaching of it who preached to the spirit in prison to redeem the captives and by which the fleshly man was judged in the flesh that man might live according to God in spirit this Gospel we witness to have received not from man but by the revelation of Jesus Christ which is contrary to man for which we are persecuted and suffer by man neither do we speak to the wisdom and reason but we preach to the spirits in prison that the fleshly man may be judged in the flesh that man may live according to God in the spirit this will many witness with us that by the preaching of our Gospel liberty is brought to the captives and the fleshly man is judged and the spirit which was in prison is set free And here again I charge the teachers of this generation that their gospel which they preach is not the Gospel which the saints preached but another gospel they are guilty of that themselves whereof they falsly accuse us for they have received their gospel from man and by man from the Printers and Stationers and are made ministers of it by the will of man at Schools and Universities and their preaching is in the will of man a limited time and place neither do they suffer by man but are set up with man and feeds the wisdom and reason of man and the fleshly man is not judged nor the captives redeemed by their gospel which they preach here they are accursed which preach another Gospel as saith the scripture And ye are a blinde and ignorant people which cannot see these things Did they that preached the true gospel receive it contrary to the will of man and can it now be received by the will of man Did they which preached it suffer for it by man and can they now who preach it be set up by man who lives in the same persecuting nature Did the true Gospel once judge the fleshly man and lead to live according to God in the spirit and doth it now give liberty to the fleshly man to live after the flesh in the lusts of it as the teachers and professors of this generation do who profess the Gospel but are discovered not to be come to the Law And the scriptures we own to be a true declaration of the Life which they lived in which spoke them forth and by the same spirit from which they were spoken which we have received do we set to out seals that they are true and the scripture is ours who wal● in the life of it proud men spoke it not forth nor they that sought for their gain from their quarter nor they that preached for hire nor they that were called of men master but persecuted them that spoke it forth and denied it when it was spoken And here again I charge it upon the teachers and professors of this generation that they deny the scripture and are guilty of that themselves whereof they falsly accuse us for they say None must be perfect upon the earth when as the scriture declares of such as were perfect upon the earth and they say None must be free from sin when as the scripture declares of such as were free from sin were the servants of righteousness ●hey say Christ hath not enlightned every one the scripture saith he is the light of the world and hath enlightned every one c. can they now who live in the same persecuting nature walk in the same steps as they did which persecuted them who spoke forth the scripture as the teachers and people do own the scriptures in truth their professing of the scripture is as theirs was which made a great profession of it in the outward appearance but put him to death who had the life and was the substance of it They then as the teachers of the world do now denyed the spirit and life which gave forth the scriptures And the Ordinances of Jesus Christ we own and witness preaching praying baptism communion singing and whatsoever was ordained for his saints to practice in