Lord and the wicked shall be turned into hell But every member according to the diversities of their measures of the Spirit of life who are of the true Church can witnesse and read the Scriptures with the life in their life which is hid with Christ in God Col 3.3 but you standing only in that which hath written Annotations and which draweth Inferences Conclusions and meanings from the Scriptures that witnesseth sufficiently concerning you that you are not in the life of the first Principle of pure Religion which giveth the understanding of the Scriptures Ignorance therefore is the cause of your error Math 22.29 Math 13.34 as saith Christ You erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God Wherefore unto you they are parables and hidden sentences from the darknesse of your clouded understandings who is he that seeth your misery and doth not lament you who have consented to the blinding of your selves through the yeelding of your minds captives to the perverse wills of your Instructers they have trodden out paths in unrighteousnesse and you have walked in their crookednesse Verily I am as one wounded for your sakes and heavily pressed with the clods which the ploughers have ploughed upon your backs Oh where is the hand which hath holpen you Have not your watchers forgiven you your sins in vanitie and strengthened your hands with the strength of their own hearts in iniquitie In what manner have they brought you unto confession and what will that availe you if after your confessions the same and worse sins and iniquities are wrought and committed by you Are you so ignorant as to thinke that their words of absolution is the covenant of pardon and salvation Or do you thinke that bare confession of your sins only will bring you under the Condition of mercy Mark the order of the declaration of Solomon's wise sentence which maketh frustrate the expectation of your vaine confidence Pro 28.13 He that covereth his sins shall not prosper but who so confesseth and forsaketh them shall finde mercy Oh people why therefore will ye thus rest and remaine in the night of slumber when will ye be awakened to come to see the works of your teachers how that they have double-girded your loynes with the cords of ignorance and have made that the strength of their renowne and praise in the Nations and your cloathing with the clouds of darknesse is your Priests garment of glory over you by this their power governes in Dominion and Majesty and you remaine as Subjects chained under the yoak of their iniquitie Oh who can declare your misery It is my sorrow for the Seeds sake to behold it and I know that it suits not with the delight of your hearts to read the explanation of it But hath the Lord a Remnant and shall he not visit for the sake thereof yea verily and this therefore in love to the soules of the simple that they may come to the light of the day each one in the sensiblenesse of his own heart and life to reade with understanding the mystery of godlinesse and Scriptures of truth which do speak one and the same thing in the word and intention and not of many things as by more then one but of all things in and by one through whom the worlds were made and the Covenant of God stands sure through whom also grace mercy and peace is come to as many as are joyned to that one in the clearnesse of the naked truth through the relinquishing of the hidden things of deceit and all the former wayes vanities customes traditions superstitions and ungodly words and works and renouncing the counsells of the many fathers and men of the world through the spreading of whose spirit and the fruits of their life delusion hath a long time reigned in the world cleaving to the only sound counsell of the living God father of truth which deceiveth nor deludeth any man but establisheth all men that come unto it in a holy way exceeding the errors of mans wayes even in that new and living way which he hath prepared wherein the uncleane cannot walke Isa 55.8 but it is unto those the way-faring men though foales shall not erre therein Wherefore all people be not any longer blinded under the perverse crooked wills of your Instructers and Pastors but examine and try truly whether they have lead you in the way of God wherein the wicked cannot walke And now in all this will you count me your enemy in putting you upon diligent inquiry and also in telling you the truth Lay it to heart oh people and you Doctors and Teachers of the Nations Come forth and consider assemble assemble the principal members of your bodyes together and call a full Councell of the Magicians of your Lands and suffer us then to prove you before all men provide your rods that you may cast them in the presence of the Nations and behold ours is ready to be cast also that it may be knowne whether God is the God of Egypt or of Israel and that all the Inhabitants of the Earth may have an understanding who are the people that have stolen the name of Israel that were never borne of his Seed and if it shall be seene that the Serpent of our rod shall eate up the Serpents of your rods then of a truth it shall be knowne that God worketh with us and not with you but against you But if the Serpent of our rod shall be swallowed up and by the Serpents of your rods utterly devoured then let not the Nations spare to publish and cry in their streets that the God whom we worship hath utterly forsaken us Againe I say assemble your Prophets and let the worke of the Lord and his word answering by fire give testimony to the Prophets whether the Prophets of your Lands are the true Prophets that the Inhabitants thereof may truly know and understand that if the Lord be God then let them follow him but if Baal whom ye worship he God then do you continue following of him no hurt will come unto your Nations through the tryall of the Prophets so that if the Lord answers our Prophet by fire and kindles the sacrifice of the oblation in your sight then shall ye know that our Prophet is the true Prophet of the Lord but if your Prophets shall cut themselves even to the drawing of blood of their bodyes and no word of answer to their supplications as the answer of the Lord by fire from Heaven but afterwards if in their madnesse and wilfulnesse they shall kindle a fire in their wrath and charge you to kindle fires in your houses to burne this testimony among whomsoever it comes then behold that shall be a signe unto you that God is not among them for if the Lord be their God then would he plead for them or if they be Jealous for the Name of the Lord God of Hosts then will they stand forth to plead
the world in the unrighteousnesse and uncleannesse thereof in fornication and covetousnesse in drunkennesse pride malice and murder lying and swearing vain jesting and foolish talking As a people through the abominable lusts of uncleanness in your lives void of the knowledge or at least wise not considering and laying it to heart how Ephes 5.5 That no unclean person nor Idolater hath any inheritance in the Kingdome of Christ and of God being as it were stupified and benummed in your senses so far degenerated from the power of Truth and mystery of Godliness that ye have lost the generall forme and do retain but the least part thereof wherefore among you and upon you the words and prophesie of the Apostle is fulfilled 2 Tim. 3.13 Evill men and Seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived And yet a little while and it shall also be shewn unto you that desire to understand wherein you are fallen below the form of the profession of Godliness as in divers particulars I shall query for the opening of your understandings that by your diligent search in the Scripture with the Light you may see which will effectually make for the manifestation of the ground of your customes and practices in your idolatrous and superstitious worships And this unto you all is held forth for the tryal of your wayes seeing the Lords mighty day is at hand which will rip open and make manifest all hearts and declare and preach that which hath been hid in secret upon the house tops Many of your Fathers were the worshippers of the works of the Philosophers untill the sound of the fame of Christ came among them whose Miracles and Resurrection confounded the depth of the working of their wisdom by which the wise men came to confesse a greater than themselves which suddenly rang through the Nation and so from Nation to Nation from the report and credit of the confession of the Philosophers and learned Doctors the ignorant also in all your Nations joyned with the humane learned and so with one consent they cryed up the name to wit of Christ whereof they had received the report who sometime before that had slaughtered the Apostles who finished their testimonies in the Life and Spirit of Jesus holding forth his name in power whose name in words as the Apostacy came and grew as the deceivers and false Prophets and false Brethren and false Apostles went forth your Fathers the Philosophers and wise men came to confesse mark the time of the coming in of this which at this time ye stand in which had not an entrance by the Doctrine or Example of Peter or life and preaching of Paul but by such as was spoken of should destroy the little flock of Christ and make havock of the Heritage of God concerning whom I have shewn you Johns witness and Pauls testimony and yet furthermore do write Judes and Peters prophesies Jude 4. For there are certain men crept in unawares who were before ordained to this condemnation ungodly men turning the grace of our God into lasciviousnesse filthy dreamers that defile the flesh murmerers complainers walking after their own lusts and their mouth speaking great and swelling words having mens persons in admiration because of advantage Such as the Apostles of our Lord spake of should come Mockers who should walk after their own ungodly lusts who are sensual having not the Spirit of Truth To the Church saith Peter 2 Pet. 2.1 There shall be false Teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable heresies and many shall follow their pernicious ways of whom the way of Truth shall be evill spoken of having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin beguiling unstable souls and hearts they have exercised with covetous practices cursed children which have forsaken the right way who are the Angels which kept not their first estate but left their own habitations God hath reserved in the everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgement of the great day Seeing therefore that the Scriptures are true as is manifest by the coming of these things to passe according to the words of the Apostles prophesies and finding you in the cursed ground and nature of uncleanness bringing forth fruits of iniquity Hereby I know even by your fruits Matth. 12.33 into what stock you are grafted mine instrument hath reached your root And again I say all men upon the face of the earth who have the least discerning may truly understand that ye are in the Apostacy working the unrighteous works of your Fathers who were the first Apostates from the true Faith in whom iniquity wrought in a mystery who when Satan had his end in destroying to the uttermost in the slaughter of all the holy Apostles in like manner as the Jews after they had slaughtered the true Prophets garnished their Tombs in honour of their persons even so also did the Deceiver set your Fathers a work to build Idols Temples and to draw out the Saints Pictures and to do hommage to the Pictures of Christ Mary and the Apostles in honour of their Persons and those things which your Fathers built ye garnished wherein ye witnesse that ye are their children and are filling up the measure of their iniquity and thus the Devil gained his dominion in you and among you by transforming himself in a nearer shape like an Angel of Light in divers other things and Ceremonies and wrought in and among your Fathers as he did in the dayes of old among the sons of men who sought out many Inventions insomuch that the righteous soul of God was grieved with them so that God repented that he had made man for straightway after the spirit of Antichrist had so greatly wrought through the earth as that Nations came under and in subjection to the wills of the Philosophers even to the confessing of the name of Christ outward Your Fathers they entered into divers consultations and what they sought out by their Inventions were set up as Laws and Ordinances and Statutes in the forms of your worships and thus came in as I have said the buildings of Idols Temples the carving of Images the painting of pictures the making of Beads and Crosses of Wood Bone Stone Gold Silver and other dead created things and the Invention of Candles and Lamps and Altars for your sacrifices and all manner of Surplesses and deceitful coverings and hood-winking garments the observations of times and seasons and weeks and dayes and divers other heresies and damnable doctrines of Devils 1 Tim. 4.1 2.3 Forbidding to marry and to abstain from meats which God had created to be received with thanks-giving All these and many more of your customes and Idolatrous worships are neither according to the command of God or of Christ or the president or example of the Holy Apostles through the Witnesse of the Scripture In few words the root of these things was the invention and working of iniquity in
Kingdome you who are called Jesuits also mark this your figure the Chamelian which lives by the Aire which according to the Law is an unclean Beast which can change himself into all colours perfect white onely excepted Read your similitude and see how you who live in your lusts can without a mock of the Truth be titled with the name of the Church of Christ Jesus in which is neither spot nor wrinkle nor blemish nor any such thing as uncleannesse or unrighteousnesse 1 Cor. 6.11 Although such were some of them but they came to be washed and were cleansed and sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God Which Spirit of truth the light is this day the Leader of the Saints and servants of God into all truth Now therefore doe ye Read What is the Chaffe to the Wheate And what relation hath the Spirit of truth unto your life which is squared and fashioned in the frame of Error Deceite hath been the Master-builder of the fabrick of your habitation the spirit of Iniquitie working in a mystery the foundation of your walls and the strength of lyes and lying wonders the pillars of your house which by the gilded appearance of the beauty of the wisdome of the ancient and learned in Philosophy Rhetorick and Sophistry is covered with many painted tiles of vanitie under the shaddow whereof you bow to the Images and pictures which the unrighteous hearts of your fathers Invented whose Gods are before your eyes unto which the affections of your naturall sences are joyned whereby with the carnall and naturall according to the motion of the Spirit of Error and Deceit in you you are led to worship the workes of their hands as is manifest by your bowings and bendings to the Image and likenesse of the naturall which the naturall invented and the carnall made And this also came in in the Apostasie when that was forsaken which the Eternall Spirit did command And now through the custome of your forefathers and you in the dayly practice of their invented Ceremonies being setled on the leese of their abominable Idolatries are come in your generation Matth. 15.9 to teach for doctrine the traditions of men And therefore in vaine is your worship as saith the Lord But yet ye have also to speake in the commendation of your fathers seniority and wisdome who gave commandement for such resemblances by Images and pictures not as if they were the gods of your worship but the resemblances of the Lord Christ c. whom by these resemblances you teach the ignorant for to worship Answer The greatest blindnesse is in the hearts of your learned Fathers I speak out of the spheare of their Colledges in mine Answer to their plea for their sinfull Idolatries and over all your Nations doe cry out and lift up my voyce as one in mourning lamenting for the lost seed among you which they that should rather in righteousnesse handle the plow to break up the clods to uncover the seed have used the spade and shovel and have heaped up dirt and stones thereon to the miserable burden thereof Oh horrible Ignorance a people bound with the chaines of darknesse can any thing be the resemblance of the Lord or the likenesse of his Image who is the Infinite Eterternall a pure holy glorious endlesse living Spirit but that which he maketh in his likeness and formeth in his own Image by the power of his own Almighty hand And doth he who is a pure Everlasting Spirit of life make or fashion any whom he fashioneth but in the likenesse of that which all the world by wisdome by Philosophy or by arguments can never attaine to reach unto the sight or understanding thereof Can any make the resemblance of God who is Immortall which the mortall never saw Can the corruptible and mortall which never did nor never shall see incorruption and immortalitie make with their corruptible hands and changeable unrighteous Idolatrous hearts the resemblance or likenesse of the Incorruptible Spirit From the Lord God I say and declare unto you all your bowings to your Crosses and Images and Pictures praying upon Beads to Mary and Saints is abomination to the Lord God of Heaven and Earth and in these things you are but a stinke to the rest of the Heathen who with you doe stand Enemies to the Doctrine Gospel and Crosse of our Lord Jesus for as they in words doe hold the name of our Lord in contempt you with your deceitfull shaddowes doe make a mock of truth and his sufferings in loathsomenesse you are seated as an abomination in the sight of God who created you and in the eye and sight of the servants of the Lord who by the price of blood are redeemed and with pure water are washed from the polutions of the iniquitie and the blood and envie which is among you and the rest of the Nations kinreds tongues and peoples of the Earth and now are the followers of the Lambe whethersoever he goeth Abundantly do the Scripture beare testimony against your practices mark from the precepts and commandements of God Exod 20.4 unto Moses through the house of the Prophets and the life of the Saints search and then see Isa 44.3 might not you with as much confidence make a calfe and say to the ignorant this is the resemblance of God worship ye it and draw the picture of a Monster and say this is the resemblance of the wonderfull Spirit which was in Paul or Peter bowe ye before it Read Jer the 23.11 12 13 14 15 verses Oh miserable blindnesse and the greatest darknesse is the Priests ignorance who teach the people lyes and cause them to erre in their wayes With the light search and see how far you are from being under the power of the word of the Lord who contrary to the letter of the Scriptures Do worship in the forme of the traditions of your fore-fathers Christ said to his Disciples in those dayes Joh 4.23 The houre cometh and now is that the true worshippers shall worship the father in spirit and in truth for the father seeketh such to worship him mark such as are in the Spirit Math 23.29 having one father which is in Heaven but ye being yet in your sins and in the flesh are the false worshippers who have many instructions and traditions and observations given to you according to the wills as the product of the inventions and conceptions of your many fathers and now as ye shall turne your minds to the light of the Lord Jesus which will rip open your hearts you will finde that rule to be the equall measure of your wayes which will give you a true fight that you are not in the truth as it is in Jesus who is the truth in whom and by whom and through whom the Prophets writ their prophesies and the Apostles had their utterance whose words do stand to the bearing
people and deceiving the hearts of the simple Awake awake to the judgement Behold the breath of the holy Apostles life is ready to utter voices in the earth as thunders against you destruction to your dwellings desolation to your habitations I have seen a dart within your doores which will wound you and when the day of God as a Thief in the night overtakes you Remember ye were warned unto repentance that you might escape the floods which shall overwhelm your Lands unto the determination of the consummation and decree of everlasting indignation and vengeance And furthermore ye Priests who say that you officiate as Peters Successors in the degree and order of your places I have both seen you your fruits and your labours and that hath plainly declared in the substance unto me that you have not the least relation unto the life of Peter being but the dirt and dust which the upright and undefiled spirit of Peter shakes from off his feet as a witnesse against your Cityes and habitations even in this day as a witnesse against the wickednesse and Idolatries of your Generation and whilst you are professing Peter's power and authority of binding and loosing on earth your manifold deceits hath blinded your hearts whereby you are so much ignorant of the word and work of Gods power that your corrupt wisdomes exercised in studies to the end of your evill dayes shall never find out the earth wherein the just life of Peter is this day entred binding the unrighteousness of your life and spirits under him as his Foot-stool everlastingly to tread and trample upon the glory of your heads and crown of your deceits Oh ye Greek Pastors Priests and people what can you plead for your Patriarch Can you not read the deceitfulnesse of his succession through the manner of his Election Dare you say that it is according to the election of the grace of Christ Jesus in the order of the truth or power of the true Faith who contrary to the word of Life and doctrine of the true faith doth purchase unto himself that Title and Degree with the price of a sum of moneys from the Emperour of the Turks whom you your selves do say is Antichrist and Reprobate concerning the faith of Christ an enemy to the life of the Saints and spirit of Peter of whom you say that your Patriarch is his successor Oh confesse confesse your blindness and blush blush and be ashamed of your impudence and obstinacy in ignorance for behold if your foundation and root concerning the remission of your sins be rotten what farther prop or post to your selves can you hew out in your imaginations and inventions for the support of the deceived walls of your Fathers buildings And again After one hath paid the price for the purchase of his Office if another of your Nation goes with his sum of moneys and gives to the Emperour he disposses the first and gives the Degree and Title to the latter Oh horrible abomination who hath a voice and hath with-holden and not cryed in the streets and published it in the open places even the iniquity and the abomination and not cryed against the loathsomnesse thereof by such desperate mockings of God through the wickednesse of their purchases Read diligently the Scripture Acts. 8.19 20 21. But Peter said unto him thy money perish with thee because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter for thy heart is not right in the sight of the Lord. Now compare the practices and see if the unrighteousnesse of Simon the Sorcerer who was in the gall of bitterness doth parralel the strength of the sealed bonds of iniquity of your Patriarchs Successors and finally touching this matter take this as the summe to your selves the original and ground of his deceivable granting and your receiving the remission of sin according to the truth of the reckoning of your own account is the Reprobate spirit of Antichrist Read also O Italy France Ireland Spain and Portugall the seat of your Father the Pope John 18.36 he sits exalted in the Kingdom of this world contrary to Christs example as King upon the highest mountain over many waters Rev. 17.15 Matth. 4.8 9. in the possession of the inheritance of the promise of Satan All these will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me The aboundance of his corrupt honour and vain glory with the abominable fruits of the worships of his children and the Priests actions in iniquity gives testimony of the oath of the witnesse that he stands principall in the ground of Apostacy Hester 3.8 c. Hamans decree which he got granted for the slaughter of the Jews and his Gallows of fifty cubits high which was prepared for Mordecai is the figure of your Fathers Inquisitions for the taking away the liberty Hos 5.13 14. and the destruction of the life of such as God sends to declare against your Traditional worships in Superstition and Idolatry Math. 11.29 How far is his life from Christs doctrine and example of humility who in the pride of his heart sitting on high in the seat and Throne of arrogancy maketh the comers to see his face to fall down before him upon their knees to kiss his foot The abomination and loathsomnesse of the nature of these few fruits are sufficient unto all that have the true sences of seeing and savouring that his succession is not in the Covenant of grace according to the election of God whom men in the flesh have elected and chosen unto the glory of the kingdomes of men in this present evil world And finally touching the vanity of your conceptions and the deceitfulnesse of the Popes practices this is the sum of the account of the true record concerning the absolutions and forgivenesse of sins which ye receive from his authorized sons Your Fathers the Priests Lucifer which sought a seat above the meek Prince of salvation is the root and ground of the issues of their grant and warrant of Remission Zach 9.9 Math. 21.5 Isa 14.12 13 14 15 16. whose figure and resemblance is the revelation of damnation He that hath an ear to hear let him hear and a heart to fear let him fear I have not in every particular remonstrated your Traditions and customes wherein you walk contrary to the truth but having the testimony shall in short shew you how that you are short of the substance in which the promise is yea and amen of eternall life Your hearts and minds are not singly and simply joyned to the Light of the Lord Christ Jesus which shines in all your consciences and that 's the cause of the foot-steps of your wayes and the birth of your words and works to proceed and flow forth as the fruits of the womb of darkness And in how much in all your wayes words and works you are short of the Life of the
to the Greekes Patriarke and Pope of Rome and to their Doctors Priests Pastors Universities Schooles and Colledges throughout the compasse of the Regions of the rule of their two Catholique Churches in all the earth by them or any of them to be answered for the sake of truth and of soules in how much they are willing to appeare lovers of truth or of soules and are ready to render a reason of the hope that is in them according to the Scriptures Concerning the Word of Faith Query 1 WHat is the faith of Jesus And what is that which begets any into the true faith of Jesus Whether is it mens Imaginary conceptions of Jesus and the training up of a people in the blinde traditions of men or only the word of faith which cometh from Jesus yea or nay Query 2 What is the sure word of faith which gives the true and sound witnesse of the life of Jesus only unto worme Jacob and which word is nigh unto all men upon the face of the earth and yet is that which the sinner cannot receive unto life but resists unto death Query 3 Can any person minister the Word to beget others into the faith of the word of faith who have not themselves received the word and have any received the life of the word who knowes not the word yea or nay And who amongst you is cleansed with the word that is not in the state of sinne under deaths bonds of transgression in enmity to the word Query 4 Whether can any truly know Christ to believe in Christ who never have heard the word of Christ And when and where did any of you ever heare the voyce of the Son of God And is not that the Pharisees and hypocrites state to boast and say that you believe in Christ and have the word of God and yet never heard immediately the voyce of Christ yea or nay Query 5 What is that eare in man which being open cannot heare the voyce of Christ who came to make deafe those that heare and to give hearing to the deafe And what is that eare also which ought to heare and is stopt And that eye which seeth and is to be blinded and that eye which is blinded which Christ cometh to open Shew plainly the five senses of man which are senslesse of the word of God and see if you can answer how that man in sense beyond sense hath the true sense of seeing hearing feeling savouring by smelling and tasting of the good word of God Query 6 By what was it that the word of life was ministred and preached unto the Spirits in prison and what is the Spirit which is the prisoner and what and where is the prison and when did ye ever visit the prisoner in the time of his bondage in prison Concerning the Patriarke and Popes Power Query 7 WHat is the key which openeth the prison doore and who hath that key hath either your Patriarke or Pope that key to open the prison doore and to loose on earth And what is the matter and subject to be loosed on earth And in what manner will that also be loosed in heaven which is loosed on earth Query 8 What is the key of David and who hath the keeping thereof and is there any other key which openeth Heaven or shutteth the door of death or gates of Hell besides the key of David Whether either your Patriarch or Pope whom ye call Peters Successor hath the keeping of that key seeing that the Scriptures say That the first and the last he that openeth and no man shutteth and shutteth and no man openeth hath the key of David Rev. 3.7 Rev. 1.17 18. Query 9 What is the key of knowledge which the Lawyers took away whereby they entered not themselves and hindered others from entering even such as was entering Did the Lawyers know what that key was then And do your Patriarch or Pope Doctors Priests or Lawyers know what it is now Are you in any other knowledge or wisdome then those Lawyers were who entred not and hindred others yea or nay And wherein you may say that you differ do you shew it forth how you differ in the ground and nature Luke 11.52 Query 10 What is that Book and the Seales and Sealing of that Book which no man in Heaven nor in Earth was found worthy to open And where was Peter then whether was he in Heaven or in Earth or was he neither in Heaven nor on Earth and the Scriptures not saying that Peter was found worthy at that time how then can any of your Catholique Churches with confidence now say that those whom you call Peters Successors the Foundations and Pillars of your Churches are at this time worthy to do that or whether can your Pope or Patriarch do that in these dayes which John saw in his day no man in Heaven nor in Earth could do Rev. 5.1 2 3. Query 11 Your Members have said that Peter is the Rock and Foundation of your Catholique Churches I Query whether that was not the Peter who is the foundation of your Churches unto whom Christ the Rock and Foundation of our Church which is in God said Get thee behind me Satan and whether is the Patriarch at Constantinople or Pope at Rome his successor in his place yea or nay Math. 16.23 Query 12 Doth not the virtue of the key of knowledge open all mysteries and if ye have the key of knowledge of the things of God cannot ye thereby answer all these Queryes or any others concerning the things of God in the clear understanding of the mystery of Truth in the wisdom of God yea or my Query 13 Whosoever committeth sin is of the Devil 1 John 3.8 What then is the ground of the election of your Patriarch and Pope by sinners and impowred to forgive sins And in what standeth their power to forgive sins who are themselves wicked sinners Whether is the manner of this practice any other in the substance then Satan seating Lucifer in the Kingdom of sin falsly to salve up the wound of sin yea or nay Concerning Ordinances and divers corrupt Traditions and Idolatries Query 14 WHat is the one everlasting Ordinance of God which is the seal of the Covenant and assurance of salvation unto every living soul which hath partaked thereof which no Element could give the testimony of which is the sum and substance really come unto every true born Member of Christs Church of all Types Signes and Shadows which figured out the substance before it came Query 15 Whether are your two Catholique Churches or any of the Members thereof partakers of the one everlasting Ordinance of God which is the end of all washing carnall Bread Wine and Water-Baptismes and of all shaddows Types and Figures spoken of in the Scriptures seeing you in contrary manner to all the prophesies doctrines and examples written in the Scriptures do stand in divers invented shaddows vanities and Idolatries in the practice of the
is the seed of the Kingdome of Heaven which is like unto a grain of Mustard-seed and how comes it to grow to a Tree and how come the birds of the Aire to lodge therein and whether is it fruitfull before it be grafted yea or nay Query 32 What and where is the field in which the Pearl is hid and what is the Pearl to the field how are they distinguished and how is the Pearl hid and by what comes the purchase of the field and how comes the Pearl to be found and who are they that have found it and do keep it having found it yea or nay Query 33 What is the seed of God unto which only the promise of God of salvation unto life everlasting is Query 34 What was the Image of God which man lost through the disobedience and transgression against the will and commandement of God and whether all that stand in the disobedient and transgressing state are not still seated in the lost state yea or nay Query 35 How lyes the Image of God now in the dust and what is the dust to the Image of God and what is the Serpent and how doth the Serpent feed upon the dust of the ground and what is that ground which is not at all substantial but dusty and that ground whose substance is mountains stony and rocky and altogether barren and unfruitful Query 36 By what comes the change of the ground Moab also hath been at ease from his youth hath not bin emptied from vessel to vessel what is Moabs seed now which in the nature stands in the same state that Moab was then whether are ye in any other condition or life then as ye were from the beginning as ye have grown in years so you have grown in wickedness whether therefore do ye beleeve that it is possible for you to be saved except the ground be changed Moab emptied ye become begotten born of God unto another life whether doth he that is born of God commit sin yea or nay Jer. 48.11 John 3.3 1 John 3.9 Query 37 What is the salvation of Jesus from what doth he first save his people In plain words shew to all people what is Salvation Redemption and Restauration and from what unto what and when Query 38 What is that life of Christ which is slain in spiritual Sodom which is daily crucified upon the Crosses of your Catholique Churches Query 39 What manner of fruit bare that Almond Tree of which Jeremiah saw a rod what is that seething pot which Jeremiah also did see and what is the flesh which for one day must boyle therein and whether a root and fruit ought to be boyled with the flesh and whether will the Broth of these things be clean food according to the Law yea or nay Query 40 What is that new threshing instrument which is prepared for the hand of worm Jacob to thresh withall how shall he thresh the hills to Chaffe and mountains to dust and with what shall be fan them and what is the wind that shall carry them away and where shall the chaffe be carried and in what quarters shall the whirle-wind scatter the dust of the mountains Query 41 Whether the seed of the woman and the seed of the Kingdom which Christ said is like to a grain of Mustard-seed and the seed of Abraham and worm Jacob are they in the substance one two three or four yea or nay shew plainly without deceit how that two three or all are one in the substance or otherwise make manifest how in the declaration so also they differ in the substance Query 42 What is the new creation of God whether is it now short of the creation of the first man Adam whom God made a living soul do any of you believe that the second is made a quickning spirit and which of these two is the greater and most full of glory are any of ye passed from death unto life from the dishonour of sin transgression to see the beauty of the first Creation and to behold the honour of the Lord from Heaven doe ye beleeve the Revelation of the Son of God yea or nay Shew how Christ hath revealed himself unto any one of you 2 Cor. 5.17 Query 43 What and where standeth the Tree of Life which he that comes to eat thereof shall never taste of death and which he that tasteth not thereof in this life shall never see the day of life have any one or more of you in all your Nations and two Catholique Churches ever seen a leaf of the Tree of Life which healeth the Nations and describe how and by what wind any leaf was blown upon any of your Nations and shew forth those that are healed thereby of your Nations Query 44 Whether do you believe the real substantial everlasting virtue of the blood of Jesus If you answer yea why then in abominable deceit and miserable ignorance do you teach for doctrine an infernal place of purgatory Read the Scriptures Acts 20.28 Heb. 9.12 Rev. 1.5 1 John 1.7 Rev. 5.9 Rom. 5.9 and what advantageth the peoples pennance and the Popes and Priests remission of sins if after pennance repentance and remission they must go into the torment of Purgatory to be cleansed from their sins to enter into the Kingdome of Heaven Query 45 What and where is the Sanctuary of God seated wherein the Saints of God do daily worship and what is the equall ballance thereof and the dust of the ballance Declare plainly what is that which measureth justly all words works worships studyes wayes and spirits which reacheth over iniquity and comprehendeth the mystery thereof what is that line which measureth the worlds wayes and the plummet unto which judgement is laid and what is that Reed which John had to measure the Temple of God the Altar thereof and what is that Court which he was not to measure which the Gentiles tread under foot Concerning the studies in Vniversities of Tongues Ministry Astrologie Physick Law and Philosophy Query 46 WHat is the foundation chief corner stone of your Universities Colledges do you not reckon Tongues Rhetorick Philosophy to be precedent steps leading unto Theologie to the compleating of a Ministry as the principle leaders unto the expert practice of Physick Law Astrologie and whether are not these Arts and Sciences the sum substance and end of your studies yea or nay Query 47 Whether only the word of God is not the real substance of the ministry of God the ground of understanding true knowledg of all the natural whether all Tongues Arts and Sciences besides the word are not vanity and whether all that professe the substance yet standing in the naturall and have not the word from God as from the mouth of God are not in vanity and deceit and in utter enmity to the word yea or nay Query 48 Who is he of all your Patriarchs Popes Doctors Priests
or Pastors let him stand forth and answer by name which hath received the word as from the mouth of God to minister it faithfully as the everlasting Gospel and message of God Query 49 Who is the Astronomer or Astrologer let him stand forth and answer by name which hath received the word dwels in the word by which the earth the Sea all that in them are the heavens the Sun Moon Stars the habitations of the heavens the hosts of the Heavens were made which made all governs all even unto this day to building destroying to planting plucking up which shews the natural causes of all overtures changes And let him answer me with the strength of his understanding whether his predictions are not subject to alter change or are they altogether unalterable infallible And this will manifest the original to be either the word of the Lord or the spirit of the Devil let him tell me whether worm Jacob hath a habitation in his house or shew me how the seed of worm Jacob is governed in his house which if he knows not that how knows he in what manner the Plannets are governed and Signes are ordered in and about the house of Heaven Isa 44.25 Dan. 4.7 8. Query 50 What is the ground cause of every disease which is generated in the nature of mankind whether you Docters do know the infallible Symptoms of the nature of the diseases and have you the figure of that root in your Herbal which is the substantial effectual cure of such diseases how in what manner ought than root to be applyed as a Remedy for the cure of the malady and saving of the sick which if ye knew the virtue and were faithful unto all persons considering their conditions in administring an equal portion of that root would not your practices preach a testimony to the discovering of the iniquities of all that makes a prey upon the people for the love of their monies yea or nay Query 51 What is the ground of a just Law Let the Judges Justices and Lawyers answer whether they stand in that ground which was the originall of the Law given unto Moses or are any of them in that ground wherein Moses received the Law Whether are they grafted into the roote of righteousnesse wherein the good Stewardship of the Lawes is testified to be the preservation of peace in the Nations which if they answer affirmatively I further Query What is the little measure of equitie which measureth all causes and dealeth just Judgement unto all without respect of persons in all manner of differences suits and controversies between man and man as in one Law and way of equitie and truth which if the Judges Justices did Judge by that Law and the Lawyers plead from the ground of that Law the Innocent would no longer suffer nor the oppressed groane under cruelties through the execution of corruption under the name of a Just Law Query 52 What is the tongue of the learned distinguish that which is but one from the tongues of mens learning which are many in the world and whether any tongues beside that one in any measure reacheth to the understanding of the things of God yea or nay Isa 50.4 Query 53 Whether is Philosophy in contrariety unto or in unitie with the tongue of the learned and what is the originall roote of Rhetorick and ground of Philosophy and can any receive the tongue of the Learned to speak forth the things of God in the wisdome of God in whom the ground of Philosophy and roote of Rhetorick remaines and is not the roote knowne by the branch leafe and blossome which springs from the roote yea or nay Query 54 What Bottle is that which is only proper to receive in it the old wine of Rhetorick and dregges of Philosophy And what Bottle is that which receiveth only the new wine of the kingdom and whether is it possible that these two can be contained in one bottle without breaking the bottle And what is the old bottle which cannot hold new wine Whether are not you that old bottle which never was broken yea or nay Query 55 What ayre is that wherein Paul said the Saints shall meet the Lord whether is it one of the foure Elements of which the Philosophers said mans naturall body is composed of Whether is it a naturall Element that shall for ever comprehend Christ and the Saints spirituall life seeing Paul said and so shall we be ever with the Lord. But if ye say that that ayre is not one of the Elements which the Philosophers wrote of answer then according to the Scripture and shew by the witnesse of God what that ayre is if not an Element 1 Thes 4.17 Query 56 Whether doth not your Philosophy informe you that if there be a third of necessitie also there must be a second and a first which ye Doctors of Athens or other Officers of the two Catholique Churches throughout the earth need not have gon to Rome or other Colledges or Schooles to have learned seeing most of the meane and vulgar in your accounts could so farre informe you in your own places and streets But without controversie to the ends of the earth you must first goe ere you come in truth to answer this my Query Paul said that he knew a man which was caught up into the third heaven what was the first heaven wherein Paul made his first entrance coming out of the Jawes and prison of death And what was the second heaven and the third heaven in which he saw the Revelation of things unlawfull to be uttered And whether the first second or third heaven is beneath but equall or above the ayre which Paul spake of And finally speak plainly whether can a man in his will by his wit or wisdome politicall his knowledge historicall the exercise of his arts and parts sylogisticall or philosophicall or by any of your studyes Theologicall throughout your Universities and Colledges Answer these Queries concerning the things of God according to truth in the wisdome of God to speak as the Oracles of God yea or nay 2 Cor 12.2 All ye Officers of the two Catholique Churches if truth be with you you will be glad of an occasion to Answer and lay open the deceits and Errors of hereticks for the confirmation of every honest heart and establishing all simple souls in the doctrine of truth Be wise in your generation for your owne actions will testifie in the hearts of the people either for you or against you Fury may proclaime a fire in your bosomes and you may order this writing to be burnt with fire but that will publish your envie and preach your spirits to be of the author of murder I tell you in time such an action will work your own confusion and afterwards God of a truth will plead with you by fire Truth is above deceit and can stop the