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spirit_n	scripture_n	word_n	write_v	7,633	5	6.1357	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26198	The schoolmaster disciplin'd, or, A reply to a lying paper, entitull'd, The gadding tribe reproved, put foeth [sic] under the name of George Willington ... also, An answer to a scandalous paper, put forth by William Prynne, entitulled The Quakers unmasked ... : whereunto is added A reply to an additional paper, put forth by William Prynne, in his lying, inlarged edition of his scandalous paper aforementioned ... / by John Audland.	Audland, John, 1630-1664.	1655 (1655)	Wing A4197; ESTC R23357	14,236	15

God and the Holy Ghost spoke to them no voice of that is heard in thy mediate cal or mans ministry therefore denied by them who are guided by the Spirit o● the Lord who receives not the ministry of man but by the revelation of Iesus Christ and that 's not mans ministry The third is that we are to salute no man Reply This is thy own and in thy confutation thou answerest thy self for the Saints Salvation we own and honors all men in the Lord which is more than the heathen do but we have learned not to fashion our selves according to the world and to deny the customs of the heathen and their flattering titles and vain fashions which is without the fear of God who have mens persons in admiration because of advantage and respects mens persons and commits sin and a difference do we put betwixt the Saints salvation and the vain fashions and customs of the heathen which Israel was not to observe The fourth is that the Scripture ought not to be expounded and that expounding of Scripture is an adding to Scripture and if we add then God wil add to us all the plagues that are written therein and in thy confutation saith Christ expounded Scriptures Reply He that adds the plagues is to be added to him as it is written but thy other words is false and thy own it is your own imagination of the Scripture which we deny wresting it as thou hast done and adding with thy Envious spirit against the truth but that Christ expounded the Scriptures was neuer denied by us and that he opened their understandings to understand the Scriptures we own and witness and the Spirit of Christ is one in all his Saints and for the ly let it return upon thy own head Thy Fift is that it is not lawfull to use the title of Master to any and in thy confutation thou saith Christ was called Master and where it is said Be ye not called Master for one is your Master even Christ thou sayest the meaning is not that it is unlawful to be called Master Reply thou shews thy self to be none of Christs servant who pleads against his command and saith he bad them avoid a thing which was not unlawful if it be not unlawful its lawful thou hast forgotten now to make Scripture thy rule as for Christ being called Master he was and is so and whom hee made Ministers he made them not Masters for they had one Master and him we own to be master and in this thou art a Lyar and of the Devill who saith we say it is not lawfull to use the title of Master to any and we likewise say and exhort thereto that servants should be obedient to their owne Masters not as men-pleasers with eye-service but serving the Lord Thy sixt is that Infant-Baptism is no Ordinance of Christ and therefore of no use in the Church of God and thou saith an express command thou grants is not to be found but thou saith infants were circumcised and Baptism is ordained in the room of that Reply VVe deny it to be an Ordinance of Christ or that it came in the room of Circumcision the Scripture speaks of no such thing as infant-Baptism and til thou prove it came in the room of Circumcision thy saying proves nothing the male-children were circumcised in room of what came in your female children to be sprinkled thou speaks thou knows not what he is a Jew who is one inwardly and Baptism is by the spirit and circumcision is that of the heart he that is in Christ is a new creature born again of water and not of the spirit such are partakers of the Ordinance and are members of the Church and that which is no Ordinance of Christ is of no use in the Church of God but is by the children of light denyed Thy seventh head is That we say that the Lords supper is of no use in the Church of God since the resurrection of Christ Reply This is an absolute lie never spoken or owned by us I charge thee to prove it either by our words or writings or let shame cover thy lips lyer for the lake and own thy condemnation for thy slandring lying and false accusing Thou saith it was not thy purpose to have writ a treatise of this subject till of late finding that none answered the book before mentioned Reply Thy treatise is lyes and rayling language against the servants of God but the book is yet unanswered thy filthy silly lying paper is not taken for an answer to that book and of late thou beginnest to vent out thy mischief and thy ignorance old rotten dul stuff it is like the evil treasure it proceeded from and they who reads thy paper whose understanding is opened will discern thy ignorance and malice and deny thy unclean spirit for among the children of light thy unfruitful works of darkness is denyed and cast out and thy formed weapon cannot prosper but the Lord will wound the head of the wicked he will bruise thee as with a rod of Iron and dash thee in pieces like a potters vessel this is answered not because it was particularly against me but for the truths sake that the lies which he had raised against it may return upon his own head I. A. An answer to a Scandalous Paper Entitu●ed The quakers unmasked Put sorth by William Prynne wherein his slanders are made to appear and he is found with a lye in his mouth I Meeting with a Paper Entituled The quakers unmasked and clearly Detected Put sorth by VVilliam Prynne wherein he slanders and falsly accuseth those people scornfully called quakers and saith they are sent from Rome to seduce the intoxicated giddy headded English Nation his ground being an information he saith taken upon oath in the City of Bristol which he sets down as followeth The Information of George Cowlishaw of the City of Bristol aforesaid Iron-monger taken the two and twentieth day of Ianuary 1654. who informeth upon his oath that in the Month of September last this Informant had some discourse in Bristol with one he calls Mr. Coppinger an Irish man formerly a School-fellow of his that came thither purposely for his passage into Ireland who told this Informant that he had lived in Rome and Italy eight or nine years and had taken upon him the order of a Fryer of the Franciscan Company and he told this Informant that he had been at London lately for some months and whilest he was there he had been at all the Churches and meetings publike and private that he could hear of and that none came so neer him as the quakers and being at a meeting of the quakers he there met with two of his acquaintance in Rome the which two persons were of the same Franciscan order and company that were now become chiefe Speakers amongst the quakers and he himself had spoken amongst the quakers in London about thirty times and was wel approved of

Lord and reads thy book wil avoid thee and it and have no fellowship with such unfruitful workers and works of Darkness thou hast forgotten judge not and thou hypocrite first cast out the beam thy envious Spirit which fomes like the sea casting up filth swells beyond its bounds but thou art limited as all thy impious generation have been and by the power of the Lord are we preserved from thy errors and hellish blasphemy and thy railing and slandering return upon thy felt fruitless tree upon which no grapes is gathered Thou sayest what Paul said to the Galatians the same thou wilt say to the giddy headed people of the Church of England Reply The true Church is in God builded upon the true rock and is not giddy-headded here thou manifests the fruits of the Teachers who so long hath taught and had so much for teaching and the Church of England yet giddy-headded but the Lord is comming to gather his people into the true Fold from the mouths of all Idol Shepheards and to teach his people himself that they may be established in righteousness Thou sayest Paul taught the Romanes and in them us first that it is the imputed Righteousness of Christ onely that makes us just in the sight of God Secondly that our election is of Gods free Grace Thirdly that we are justified only by faith in the sight of God without good works fourthly that the scriptures is of divine authority Reply Silence flesh before the Lord upon the children of disobedience shall the wrath of God be revealed own thy Portion what Paul said to such as thee thou must witness a change before that which Paul wrote to the Romanes be to thy condition the Lord is our righteousness and our justification and by his grace we are saved who hath elected us and chosen us in Christ Jesus who hath all power and authority committed unto him and upon whose shoulders the government is laid but from thy earthly wisdom is the election and the faith hid who art without good works and belyes the Apostle and ignorant art of the Letter which kils Fiftly Thou sayest no man since the fall of Adam can perfectly fulfil the Law of God in this Life and therefore cannot merit except it be wrath Reply For meriting the wrath it s thy own but Christ Jesus since the fall of Adam hath perfectly fulfilled the Law of God and there is Salvation in no other and the righteousness of the Law is fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit but by the works of the Law no flesh shall be justified for the Commandment which was ordained unto life wrought death if thou can hear thou may In thy sixt and seventh thou saist that he that hath received a Ministry should wait on his Ministry and take heed to fulfil it and that every soul must be subject to the higher power and yeild obedience to every Ordinance of theirs if not contrary to Gods word Reply Thou slanders us and rails upon us who hath received a Ministry from God waits to fulfil it and thou receives such as come in their own name who are made by the wil of man against such do we bear witness by the power of God unto which our souls is subject for conscience sake and to every ordinance for the Lords sake which is not contrary to Gods word Thou sayest thou art afraid that the Lord hath a controversie with the Church of England Reply Fearfulness surprizeth the heart of the hypocrite and a controversie hath the Lord with you because of your iniquities misery is coming upon you fearful ones and unbelievers who are no Church of Christ but a Synagogue of Satan who say they are Iews and are not but are a giddy-headed Church as thou confessest Thou sayest Make not the light within a rule to walk by and yet saith sollow the light within and teacher within what else Reply The light discovers thee to be in confusion they that walk in the light stumbles not and they who love the Light bring their deeds to it and believes in the light but their deeds are evil who ha●e it and walk not in it and there is thy condemnation Thou sayest He that entreth not in by the door to wit a true and lawful call but climbeth up some other way the same is a thief and a robber and such are the quakers but he that entreth in by the door is the shepherd of the Sheep and such are your ancient Divine● Reply Here thou as in other places art a false accuser and a perverter of the Scriptures your Divines is not the Shepheard there thou art a blasphemer who would set up fal●e Christs the true Shepheard laid down his life for the sheep and he is the door and them whom thou slanderest enters in at the door where no thief nor no diviner can enter nor no hireling which the true Shepheard cryed against And as thou sayest Thou will speak something to our principles first for judging Reply Thou hast judged us to be deceivers and seducers and false accusations against the truth thou hast brought and against some in particular naming that Iohn Audland was a child of the Devil and yet thou hast confessed thou never saw me nor heard me but thou hast not proved wherein which I charge thee to do publikely or own thy condemnation for thy slandring lying and backbiting thy laying that it is so doth not make it to be so and that which thou cals a confutation confutes thyself but proves nothing against the Saints judging them whom they saw and discerned to be unlearned for when an unbeliever came in or one that was unlearned he was judged of all and the thoughts of his heart made manifest and this honor have all the Saints to bind Kings in chains and to execute upon the heathen all the judgments written and the Scripture we own and the Saints life by which thou art judged and with the light condemned who judgest and acts against the Saints with that mind that is for judgment The second is that they are not true Ministers which are called by mans Ministery or by a mediate call from man and this thou goest about to confute by saying that Christ ordained apostles and disciples And the Holy Ghost said Seperate me Barnabas and Saul for the work of the Ministry and that there was Elders ordained in the Church and the like Reply These things proves nothing to thy mediate cal or mans Ministery Christ is not born by the wil of man and holy men spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost and no prophesie came by the will of man Paul a Minister and Apostle not by the will of man and that which is highly esteemed amongst men is abomination in the sight of God and there is thy mediate call and mans ministery which the Scriptures speaks not of what Christ did and the Saints did was by the power of