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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Psal 50.16 17 conceit and tongue-faith comforting themselves from without in their imaginarie and Phantasticall apprehensions Isa 29.13 Matth. 7.26 Ioh 5.38 with the merit and satisfaction of Christ stroking and soothing thereby their old Man in his sinfull courses but cannot endure the Spirit of Christ stroking and soothing thereby their old Man in his sinfull courses but cannot endure the Spirit of Christ or the inward Word of God in the Heart as in his Temple reviling and traducing that gracious inhabiting despighting and gainsaying the holy Ghost openly Hebr. 10.29 and thus indeed rejecting the true foundation and corner-stone of the everlasting covenant in their building This beloved Luk. 11.39 is indeed a most false pernitiously and deadly foolish Phantasie whereby these Phantasticall Men together with all that cleave unto them Ioh. 17.10.20.23 and seek for light in darknesse do precipitate and plunge themselves into everlasting Darknesse For he that is not united with God by the inhabiting of Christ 1 Cor. 1.9 Hebr. 3.6 and 6.6 the true and onely light in a true faith must remain thus separated from God and enchained with Lucifer in darknesse for ever Therefore take heed and understand yet at length ye children of men 2 Pet. 2.1 that when your Preachers do deny and traduce the inhabiting of Christ in the true beleevers they do speak too presumptuously against Christ and against his members who by the inhabiting of the Spirit of Christ in them Ephes 4.30 or by the participation of the Divine Nature are truly sealed and new born to be the children of God and truly the apple of his eye 2 Cor. 1.22 But of themselves that deny this inhabiting of Christ and that Christ doth not dwell in them 2 Pet. 7. Ioh. 8.44 not feeling him in themselves and denying the Lord that bought them it may be truly said according to the saying of Christ to the Jews Ye are of your father the devill and the lusts of your father you will do He was a murtherer and a liar from the beginning and abode not in the truth because the truth is not in him When he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own For this is manifest by the likenesse of these Scribes and Pharisees of the New Testament with these of the Old Testament which had the word of God not dwelling within them and called Christ a made man and an inchanter and plainly shewed by their hypocriticall and carnall course and conversation Matth. 11.30 Hebr. 10.29 and the fruits thereof that not Christ but Antichrist which is the spirit of Darknesse and the Prince of this world did inhabite them and wrought such works Now consider yet further dear Man Isa 61.6 1 Pet. 2.9 that by reason of and from this inhabiting and anointing all Christians are children of the light Priests of the Lord a royall priesthood and holy peculiar people of God that ought to declare the power of him that called them out of darknesse to his marvellous light and washed them through his blood and made them Priests Rev. 1.6.9 10. Rom. 12.18 Gal. 5. Hos 14.3 Heb. 5.13 Revel 5.8 Numb 16. 2 Chron. 26.16 to present their bodies a living sacrifice holy and acceptable to God and to crucifie and destroy the works of the flesh and the earthly members in their lusts to offer up the calves of their lips as the fruits of the same in a praise-offering to God through Christ and to present the censor of the heart full of the sweet-smelling savour of prayer For as in the old Testament none were permitted to be a priest and to burn incense before God but Aaron and his sons that issued from him as from a Rock so in the new Testament none is a Christian but he that is cut out of Christ the living Rock 1 Cor. 10.4 Cap 3.16 Matth. 16.18 1 Pet. 1.23 Isa 8.18 1 Ioh 5.1.14 Matth. 3.17 Ioh. 1.13 c. 4.24 c. 16.26 Hebr. 5.16 1 Cor. 6.17 Ioh. 14.16 17. 2 Cor 4.6 1 Ioh. 2. and built upon him and none dare draw neer unto God with his prayer but he that is regenerated of Christ And to his throne of grace they all approach with cheerfulnesse that will obtain mercie from God their heavenly Father through the same mercie seat Jesus Christ by whom as the well-beloved they are acceptable before God Ephes 1.6 And upon this same ground also all true Christians are not secular but spirituall men for they cleave unto the Lord and are one spirit with him which Christ hath given unto them from the Father and thereby sealed them whereby likewise as by a shewing light there ariseth in their hearts the enlightning from the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ assuring and teaching them inwardly and not onely making their hearts sure Gal. 5.16 but working withall the fruits of the Spirit within them such as are faith love patience peace kindnesse meeknesse c. and therefore they are spirituall people hating the works and fruits of the flesh such as are adultery fornication uncleannesse lasciviousnesse idolatry sorcerie enmitie strife envie wrath hatred variance divisions seditions murther drunkennesse gluttony pride ambition extortion covetousnesse and the like all which do mark out a secular Ier. 7. worldly and carnall man where they are committed But those that belong to Christ do crucifie their flesh with its lusts and desires and as they live in the spirit so they walk likewise in the spirit and are in deed and in truth no secular or worldly but spirituall men however otherwise by their places and offices here they may be Kings Princes Nobles Citizens or Pesants Mark then and try thy self O Man what fruits there break forth in thy life from within Matt 5.15.20.22.34.35.23.25.26 and how thy heart is disposed inwardly in its thoughts and affections whether thou be a secular or spirituall person Let not the prating of those falsely called spirituall or Divines with their outward Church preachings confessions and communions deceive thee but go and try now thy own self whether Christ doth dwell and live in thee whether thou be in the faith fit or unfit exercise love yea or no 2 Cor. 13.5.6 and let not their pretended difference trouble thee that they do call themselves the Priests spirituall ones and men in holy Orders or Divines and these of thy Rank and Qualitie the secular and Lay-people The Devill as the spirit of Darknesse hath taught them to devise this difference whose spirituall creatures they are for he can likewise transform himself into an Angel of light 1 Cor. 11.13 and is a spirit why not then as well also his own Apostles and Ministers but as he is a spirit of Darknesse so are they spirituall ones of darknesse or altogether worldly and carnall whose belly is their God and whose glory is their shame for that is one and the same before God and their end

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