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A81535	A discovery of the great fantasie, or, Phantasticall conceitednesse. That is to say, of the antichristian blindnes of those, that out of a meer false imagination and phantasticall conceitednesse, do hold themselves to be Christians, sprituall divines, deputies and messengers or spokes-men of Christ, and take upon them, as mediatours, to save others, whom they call the secular lay-men; therewithall, reviling, traducing, condemning, excommunicating, persecuting, exiling, and putting to death the true children of God, for not yeelding unto this phantasie of theirs, conceiving, that therein they do God great service, when they busie themselves in weeding the ground thus, according to their phantasies, and endeavouring to save the angels a labour against the time of the harvest. Together with a discovery of the great arch-whore, and her paramours or lovers, whereof the spirit of God beareth witnesse.		1642 (1642)	Wing D1651; Thomason E124_28; ESTC R6001	19,094	24

their clamours and outcries lest in any wise ye should draw neer to your heavenly Father without their means and Mediatourship for do but observe I pray how Christ doth answer the Pharisees as they demanded of him when the Kingdom of God should come Luk. 17.20 that it cometh not with outward observations or ceremonies neither shall say lo here or lo there is it but the kingdom of God is inward and within Man and St. Paul saith The kingdom of God doth not consist in eating drinking 1 Cor. 4.20 Rom. 14.17 1 Cor. 2.4 nor in great swelling words or artificiall prating but in power and in the demonstration of the Spirit of God it being righteousnesse peace and joy in the holy Ghost that Man is to serve God in this kingdom in spirit and truth God being a Spirit himself Ioh. 4.23 M●tt 6.10.23 and requiring such worshippers as do worship him in spirit and truth Ioh. 24.21 Therefore also Christ hath taught us to seek above all things the kingdom of God and earnestly to entreat and pray to God that it may come unto us and be revealed in us Unto this kingdom of God Col. 1.27.27 Matth. 13.44 2 Cor. 4.7 Eph. 2.21 which lies already hid within thee all the faithfull teachers do direct thee when as they speak of Christ that great mystery within us how thou art a Temple and dwelling of the holy Ghost how thou dost carry the treasure in the field and in an earthen vessell Deut. 30.11 that the grace may be God through Christ the word of life Rom. 10.8 which is neer thee in thy heart and in thy mouth What do our Phantasticks pray to this O say they that is not to be understood these be Pauliniall Phrases certain usuall experssions the Kingdom of God ought to be sought with them in their vile stone Churches where you may hear them make Cicero like a number of quaint and curious Declarations and discourses out of the holy Scriptures after their manner according to the Idoll Brain or Glosses of Antichrist and humaine learning every one as he is taught and principled by those humane sects Where also in the chancell or quire of their auticular confession they do forgive the people their sins in Gods stead Matth. 24. and administer their Sacraments there there they say is the kingdom of God thither men are called and invited to the great supper by the peal of the Bels and their pulpits there they are the stewards of the mysteries of God what others say of the kingdom of God within Man that is nothing to them but Phantasterie Enthusiastrie in man there dwelleth nought that is good how should the kingdom of God be within him Men ought say they to repair and frequent to their Churches there is the house of God the gates of heaven the Citie that he hath chosen where he hath set up the memoriall of his Name where the great supper is celebrated where Christ is cried into men from without See beloved how these men are carried and hurried by the giddinesse and spirit of Darknesse Art 7.48 ● 17.24 Ier. 3.16 ● 7.4 Lies and blasphemies When the true children of God do speak of the kingdom of God through Christ within them and prove or redargue that Phantasterie of God dwelling in houses or Churches made with hands whereof the Jews were wont so much to boast and glory saying here is the Temple of the Lord and the Ark of the Covenant and indeavour to withdraw their neighbour from such Phantastery to the living God Isa 57.15.66 whose Throne are the heavens and the earth his footstool and whose dwelling is in a contrite heart then the spirit of lies doth belch forth in his Phantasticks and giving out the children of God do forbid to come to any Churches or Assemblies For they are vexed when the word of Christ is cast in their teeth touching the false Prophets in sheeps clothing Matth. 24. that say Here is Christ or He is in the wildernesse and in the chamber or chappell and when thereby their Antichristian Phantastery is discovered But beloved be not thou daunted with such lies for the children of God do not forbid to come to Church or to frequent the assemblies of the congregations such namely as are gathered in the unity of the spirit this they are falsely slandered withall by the lying spirit that swayeth these Phantastiques onely they do point at the false and fond op●nion of these Bablers and Idols that would have men imagine and believe their Phantasteries as if God had his dwelling and abode in their stony rotten Churches wherein the screech-owls Bats crows and sparrows nestle there the kingdom of God were to be met withall perswading people that there God would hear them in an especiall manner and what they do propound and tell men in these places they ought to receive and obey as the Word of God and there none should dare to controul or gainsay them thus and thereby laying waste and desolate the living Temples of the holy Ghost that is the souls and hearts of men thereof they say nothing or at best but little and in a very confused and intricate manner This indeed is insufferable to Gods children and directly against the glory of God that there they should hear of the lies and calumnies of those Phantasticks and by their silence and connivence as it were approve and ratifie the same before all the congregation and to deny Christ and his glory and therefore they have reason to absent themselves from their meetings seeing their gainsaying or protesting against them 1 Cor. 14.26 would be held a great sin although among true Christians it should be lawfull to every one But yet they have as good reason altogether to speak against these wayes thereby to withdraw the straying from such false opinions that they may possesse their heart with God Ioh. 4.21 Luk. 17.20 and seek for the kingdom of God according to the doctrine of Christ within themselves not suffering themselves to be tied to any place whatsoever In the mean while they do not despise the gathering of the congregations together whether it be a house of wood or stone or in the open field either nor do they simply find fault with frequenting of Churches provided it be done out of a true love to Gods word and to stir up one another with praiers to the praise of God in the great congregation and solemne devotions as likewise that the younger sort may be taught and instructed 1 Cor. 14.23 Hebr. 10.24 25. Ier. 7.4 the elder exhorted and encouraged in their courses and erring and stumbling ones be reclaimed heartned and strengthened Therefore now lay this to heart and rely on lies no longer when ye hear them say Here is the Temple of the Lord we have the true Religion here is the kingdom of God but amend your lives and doings dealing righteously one with

A DISCOVERY OF THE GREAT FANTASIE OR PHANTASTICALL CONCEITEDNESSE That is to say Of the Antichristian Blindnes of those that out of a meer false Imagination and Phantasticall Conceitednesse do hold themselves to be Christians Spirituall Divines Deputies and Messengers or Spokes-men of Christ and take upon them as Mediatours to save others whom they call the Secular Lay-men therewithall reviling traducing condemning excommunicating persecuting exiling and putting to death the true children of God for not yeelding unto this Phantasie of theirs conceiving that therein they do God great service when they busie themselves in weeding the ground thus according to their Phantasies and endeavouring to save the Angels a labour against the time of the Harvest Together with a Discovery of the great Arch-Whore and her Paramours or Lovers whereof the Spirit of God beareth witnesse LONDON Printed by T. P. and M. S. in Goldsmiths Alley 1642. PHANTASIE or FANCIE WHen the mind of man doth not deny it self in all humility before God and is not guided and acted by the Spirit and light of God but is wise and cunning of it self in it's own power or strength of Reason and the spirit of the world then is the same mind revolted from God and goeth on in it's own guidance and naturall wisdom and that is the Phantasie which under the name of Christ and palliating cover of the holy Scripture pretendeth great matters but indeed is nothing but a meer juggling even as Lucifer became such a Phantast and juggler when as he withdrew himself from the sacred government of the eternall light and essay'd in his own high mindednesse to be something of himself where also he seduced the first man that he forsook God and his command in disobedience Therefore O Man turn thy self from this power of the Devill unto the living God through Christ the Mediatour and Saviour lest by this Phantasterie and self-conceitednesse of thine inveigled-Reason thou become and abide a Phantasticall Juggler for ever in hell For without the Truth in Christ Jesus there is no salvation THE OCCASION OF THE ensuing Treatise WHereas in many Pulpits as also in sundrie writings of those that vaunt themselves true Christians and followers or successours of the Apostles there is nothing so common and ordinarie as reproachfully to abuse and traduce such as do not agree with their self-conceited-fond opinions by the termes of Weigelians Phantasts and Enthusiasts and that with as much clamour and bitternesse as can be devised It was thought needfull to shew those Praters something of their own Phantasterie whether it might please God to give them Repentance yet to acknowledge the Truth 1 Tim. 2.23 and to be freed from the snares of Satan by whom they are held captive according to his wil to grow sober again and by shaking off and renouncing their erroneous and phantastick spirit Ezech. 13.3 Isa 29.24 to receive understanding and instruction Which is likewise requisite for the simple people and such as want true information lest they do make themselves pertakers with the sins of others and participate of the plagues of Babel Revel 6.18 Ose 7.8 9. but rather that they may save their souls as a prey out of and sleighting the commandment of God and with pleasure and delight arrogating unto himself a wisdom and knowledge of his own He fell thereby off from God was captivated by the spirit of this world and subjected to the rule of Satan who so infected him with his spreading poyson that the same did cleave not onely to himself but likewise to all his posteritie whereby they are corrupted body and soul to everlasting death and become the children of wrath and are satanicall altogether Ephes 2. Yet seeing God ever good and gracious Wisd 1.13.2.3 made not the Death nor took delight in the destruction of the living but created man to eternall life and to his Image that he should be like unto him But by the devils envie Death came into the world therefore also God took heartie compassion of Man and of his Grace repaired this fall by his everliving WORD with the promise of the seed of the woman Wisd 10 20. Gen. 3.15 who also afterwards was born man and became an Attonement-offering and graciously gave such a light to man Ephes 5.2 Ioh. 1. Ioh 8.12 Col. 3.4 1 Ioh. 3.8 Ose 13.14 Ioh. 1. Col. 1.15 Ioh. 9.5 Luk. 2 39. Bar. 3.38.4.2 1 Ioh. 5.6.7 whereby he was set upright again and by the vertue whereof he was to fight against the seed of the Serpent and overcome the sinfull desires of the same in the faith of the Covenant For this womans seed the essentiall word of the Father is the light and life of men which doth destroy and overcome the works of Satan within them and this Word which was in the beginning whereby all things were created and are conserved is the light of men which enlightneth every man that cometh into the world all namely that receive it and love not the darknesse of their carnall lust and sinfull affections as the works of Satan more then the light but rather turn from them unto the light cleave unto it by faith and suffer themselves to be guided and governed by the spirit of it such have power to become the sons of God Ioh. 1.12 and by the gracious inhabiting of this light which is Christ to be made partakers of the Divine Nature Colos 1.27 For this light Christ the essentiall Word of the Father is the onely Mediatour and the onely means whereby the fall of Adam may be abolished 2 Pet. 1.4 Hebr. 3.14 1 Tim. 25. the losse recovered and man again reconciled with God And this is that day-spring from on high that giveth light to them that sit in darknesse Hebr. 1.3 Luk. 1.78 79. and in the shadow of death that they may walk before God in holinesse and righteousnes o all well-pleasing Who so hath this light in himself 2 Cor. 4.6 Rom. 8. 1 Ioh. 2.27 Act. 15.11 Ose 12 10. Col. 1.19.2.9 Ioh. 1.17.10.11 Ioh. 15.5 1 Cor. 10.3.12.13 the same is enlightned and whoso hath his spirit in himself the same is a Christian and anointed as likewise the Patriarchs and the Prophets had him and were saved onely by him who also did speak by them With him and in him is all the fulnesse of the Godhead and of him and of his fulnesse all of us must receive He is the true Vine and we are his branches participating vigour and life of him and his fulnesse and without him none is able to do any thing He is that spirituall Rock from whom the Fathers drank their spirituall drink and all the regenerate to this day still eat and drink this spirituall meat and spirituall drink Ioh. 14.6 Eph. 4.21 Rom. 7.6 Ioh. 4.14.7.37 38. not in a Phantasticall or imaginarie manner of sensuall reason but in Truth For in Christ there is Truth and Reality and from thence

do flow the rivers of living water springing up into everlasting life out of them that do beleeve in him and are partakers of his Spirit But whoso hath not this Spirit the same is no Christian Rom. 8.10 and whoso doth not in Truth eat and drink this spirituall meat and drink as the right and true bread of Heaven Ioh. 6.53 54. 1 Ioh. 5.9 Luk. 16.23 and water of life the same hath no life in him but his soul must eternally starve and perish and his body must become an everlasting Darknesse and whoso hath not this Light and Word of Life dwelling in his heart as in a living-Temple of God Ioh. 8.21.24.44 the same is none of Gods but a vessell of wrath and of the spirit of darknesse who sets him on to all evill and at last doth precipitate and cast him into perdition Now although this be the onely Truth and altogether undeniable according to the verdict of the Scripture of the old and new Testament and that onely and solely by this light of grace and Truth all the Patriarchs Prophets Apostles Act. 15.11 and all other children of God were saved Act. 4.11 12. Ioh. 14. Chap. 6.19 and yet are saved to this day as also indeed there is no other Gospel none other name or way wherein we shall or may be saved but Christ the WORD and Light of life 2 Cor. 6.16 17 18. who truly and really hath his dwelling and aboad in the children of God and as the well-beloved Son of God maketh them to become gracious sons and daughters of God and partakers of the Divine Nature Yet many there are that boast and vaunt themselves the Ministers of the Word though falsely 2 Ioh. 5.7 Epist Iud. ver 19. c. who most impudently and blasphemously dare take upon them to deny and traduce nay like unto mad dogs with fearfull and execrable barkings ballings railings and calumnies to set upon and persecute this gracious inhabiting of Christ in his faithfull members warning and exhorting the simple ones to beware of such Men and their Doctrine whom they do call Distracted Mad Phantastike Enthusiasts Dreamers Inchanters c. as they would do of the Devill himself On the other side they are ready and forward enough to boast and brag much of the story of Jesus Christ Psal 12. Iam 2.19 according to their heathenish-Arts and deceitfull-prating sitting in the Chair of Pestilence Matth. 7.21 and puffing up themselves like so many proud and garish Mountebanks talking and glorying of Christ His Person his office how he hath satisfied for mankind how he hath sent them forth as his own Messengers Matth. 24. instead of the Apostles 2 Thes 2.4 that whosoever heareth them doth hear Christ himself what they say is the Word of God and spoken as from heaven Christ had said Come unto me all ye c. Therfore men ought to come unto them hear them for where else should they find Him Yea that such as heard them receive the Faith and holy Ghost thereby and none otherwise They are forsooth the means the pipes and conduits whereby God doth save men by them God takes away the sins of men By them he makes men partakers of the body and blood of his Son And he now that beleeveth them in all this and forsaking Christ the living Well doth seek the same in Christs stead at their hands and doth honour and make much of them for it He it is whom they commend for a true Christian and one that hath the true and saving faith albeit he live not accordingly nor shew forth such an holy conversation as Christ commanded and his Apostles and other Saints of God approved by being themselves living patterns and examples thereof O say they that matters not greatly and can do them no harm let them but acknowledge themselves poore sinners the Priests have power to pardon and absolve them in Gods stead and to take away the sins from them Christ hath suffered death for them that they need not live so exactly what had his dying availed else Let them but be of good chear and apply his merit to themselves why the verie Preachers themselves although they do exhort others to a Christian life and conversation and sit in the chair of the Apostles yet they are not able to live thus But the office which they are in hath that power and vertue that men should give heed unto it and to their preaching and speaking not to their life and conversation they were but men themselves even as others By this false prating the true spirituall knowledge of Christ is extinguished 2 Tim. 2.13 14 15 16 17. 2 Pet. 2. Ezech. 13 10.18 19 22. and nothing remaineth but an historicall relation together with the hypocrisie and apish imitation the children of men are utterly turned away from Christ and caused to walk in their vanities and the lusts of the flesh and corrupt reason Gen. 18.21 whereunto they are inclined by their old Adamicall-nature and do nothing but devise evill and it is manifest how according to the course of this world they live worse then the Heathen being altogether ruled driven and acted by the spirit of Darknesse Ephes 2.12 that hath his work in the children of unbeleef according to his own pleasure and yet do perswade themselves by reason of the promises of libertie their shepherds feed them withall that for all that they are very good Christians and have the faith if so be they do but frequently repair to them in their stone-Churches Pulpits and Confession-chairs and reverence the Ministerie then all is well enough with them Thus by the deceit of such men being the instruments of the Devill 2 Thes 2.9 Ezek. 22.25 and not Pastours but murtherers of souls they encourage and strengthen their old Adam in his carnall lusts and the sensuall desires of their self-love every where and in all occasions to seek and advance thereby their own glory ease and benefit Eph. 4.17 c directly against the commandments of Christ against the doctrine and examples of the Apostles R●● 6.12 Cap. 7.4 c. Gal. 5.16 Cap. 6.7 1 Pet. 2.12.4.3 Matth. 16.24 Luk. 17.33 Ioh. 12.25 Ioh. 15.5 1 Tim. 1.5.6.3 who incessantly insist and urge that the old Adam that is the outward man together with his sinfull lusts and deserts shall and ought to be subdued crucified and killed that man must deny himself forsake all evill in his heart and taking his crosse upon him follow Christ that we must cease to do evill fear God and do good and Christ alone must give the power and strength hereunto by his Spirit to whom being sealed by him we must submit to receive instructions Tit. 2.12 Gen. 6.2 3. Behold and consider now how farre these people are from Christ and the true faith and how shamefully they do beguil both themselves and others with unprofitable imaginations and supposed opinions