those works in man although he never died for mens outward example onely that then you do evidently maintain that Christ did suffer in his bitter and terrible tormenting death absolutely and in all respects totally in vain and so it appears that you quakers are to eat up you former words and then affirm That there never was any Christ that died at Jerusalem and so that there never was any Christ in the world that ever had or hath any person of flesh saving onely your own personal quaking Christs now come into the world in your flesh And by your affirming That Christ had no Body but his Church which is firmly proved against you in my eleventh Discourse it doth appear that the last sense is your choice mark And now do you quakers lay your heads together and see what you can pick out of this bone Again you quakers whereas you do affirm in your Doctrines in full effect that if any man have the least sin or any sin remaining in his person that that man cannot then be possibly saved because that man whilst he hath any sin in him is of the Devil and not of Christ And in this respect I do also stand to maintain against all you quakers that if you will endeavor to support your quaking reputation you must even upon necessity prove by plain Scripture that your notorious lying foul-mouthed slandering cowardly backbiting dissembling equivocating falsifying in print of the very words of holy Scriptures to deceive people withal falsifying in print your Opposers words they being printed also your perverting of the plain and true sense of the holy Scriptures destructively to delude people withal and your fearful blasphemies I say again That if you quakers do not prove by plain Scriptures unfalsified that those your self-proved manifold high presumptuous transgressions both against God and man also are nor any sins and are no sins in you quakers then I affirm that you your own selves by your own apparent practices in those high presumptuous transgressions aforesaid both against God and man also do render up your own selves by reason of those high presumptious sins in your persons to be utterly and totally uncapable of Salvation and you by your own judgement by you passed upon your selves are of the Devil and not of Christ for you quakers have made it so manifestly apparent that you do stand guilty before God in those notorious high presumptious sins aforesaid which appears by your own evil behaviours so firmly proved in this Treatise that it cannot be any ways stronglier proved then to shew your books and your Opposers and Scripture falsified by you especially because you sinful quakers do totally refuse the gracious help of the Gospel gracious imputation Therefore I advise you quakers to look about you quickly and to lay your heads together again to study it out how to prove by plain Scriptures unfalsified that those your notorious high presumptious self-proved transgressions aforesaid are not any sins and are no sins in you even upon your everlasting peril aforesaid And as for your â—ooking in the word faith for a fashion into your quakers language it is evident by Scripture-doctrine that faith can be no other in your legal profession nor no other ways but a false gloss and a useless superfluous hang by if you do make light use of any kinde of â—â—ith at all for by your considing to be saved by moral works wrought in you you do thereby make your pretended faith for a gloss vain frivilous void and of none effect And my beloved tender-hearted seeking unsetled ones you have no cause to be dismaded in the least measure at the quakers suffering for their quakery for as there is a spirit of Truth so there is a spirit of error also according to 1 John 4.6 and that man or woman that is by grace pofessed in them with God's Spirit of Truth is inabled by that holy Spirit working powerfully in them when occasion for God's cause requires it to suffer even death it self for the Truths sake witness the terrible sufferings of all the holy Saints and Martyrs in all ages and on the contrary that man or woman that is by Gods just punishment possessed in them with the devils spirit of error is enabled by that wicked spirit working powerfully in them when occasion for the Devils cause requires it to suffer even death it self for their errors sake witness the sufferrings of all erronious wicked Hereticks in all ages But those people that contentedly remain onely in their natural wilful ignorance and blindness and not being possessed with one of those two powerful spirits in them cannot possibly suffer neither for truth nor error witness those vast multitudes of unstable weak-minded men and women that were professors for Popery in some part of King Henry the 8 his raign and yet easily turned for Protestants and directly against Popery in King Edward's raign and yet did all readily turn again directly against Protestants and for Popery in Queen Mary's raign And doubtless very many of the very same persons did live in Queen Elizabeth's raign who then as readily turned again directly against Popery and for Protestants again Therefore my beloved ones consider well both of the powerfulness of the Spirit of Truth and spirit of error in them that are possessed in them with any of those two powerful spirits and how unable all the rest of the people of the world are to suffer either for God's Truth or the Devils inspired error Neither you my beloved tender-hearted seeking unsettled ones have any cause at all to be discouraged in the least measure at the quakers miraculous signs and wonders first because our blessed Saviour hath foretold us that the false Christs and false Prophets which should come into the world should shew such deceivable signs and wonders and because the quakers do say that they are Christ and because our blessed Saviour hath so lovingly given us such punctual warning to take heed and beware of such deceivers of which sort of deceivers the quakers have made themselves manifestly appear to be which is proved in my tenth Dâ—scourse And secondly because the erronious Theadas and Judas of Galilee did draw much people after them even as the self-proved erronious quakers do now and because Simon Magus by his having bewitched the people with his Sorceries along time the people said This man is the great power of God even as much people now being bewitched with quakish Sorceries do magnifie the quakers even unto a luciferian height and because the Inchanters and satanical Magicians of Egypt did by permission work some of those miraculous signs and wonders by the power of the Devil in Egypt which Moses and Aaron did work in Egypt by the powerful finger of God which appears in Exod. 10 11 chap. and because it is written That there are some whose coming is after the working of the power of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders
would with the Dâ—vâ—◠〈…〉 God and Christ the Spirit and Light ouâ— of the World and that he should no more dwell in his people till dooms-day but it is plain to the flat contrary That T. M. in that his book out of which he is charged saith in page 39. That the Majesty of God whose Throne is in Heaven is in his Inspections Influences and Operations everywhere and in his gracious and spiritual Presence and manifested nighness in and through his Son dwelling in Sion even in the hearts and societies of his people Now note doth Tho. Moor exclude God and Christ Spirit and Light out of the World and out of his people while dooms-day Dâ—â—h not T. M. affirm directly That God in his spiritual Influences is everywhere in the World and by his Spirit dwelling even in the hearts and societies of his people what can we think of these desperate attempts of J.N. against the truth But he must needs go whom the Devil for just causes is appointed to drive and these are but a little sample taken out of his manifold detestable lyes and slanders And again to shew how expresly James Nayler doth prove himself to be a falsifier of Scripture to give but a little Sample of his ample falseness Note That James Nayler in his Satan's Design in pages 20 21. he there speaking of our Saviour's words which he spake to his Disciples James thereto saith He told them also That they should mourn in the time of his absence but he would come again and their mourning should be turned into joy when the man-childe should be born into the world and he citeth to prove these his words Act. 14.8 Joh. 16.19 20 21 22. Joh. 16.16 But there is not in any of them places these his forged words That their mourning should be turned into joy when the man-child should be born into the world though our Saviour shewed them an inferiour simile of that their joy at his appearing again unto them by telling them of a womans joy when she is delivered of a man-child which word man-child as it appears fumeth up into the Quakers distempered brains and causes them to conceit That Christ a Man-child is appeared in them for they do affirm That Christ God and Man Flesh and Spirit is in them I could relate divers of these whimsical forgeries which James hath recorded in his Satan's Design discovered but these are sufficient to give a true rellish of his wickedness for besides his equivocating hypocrisie here are his own three witnesses produced to his face one proving that he is a notorious lyer the second shewing that he is a foul-mouthed envious slanderer and another proving that he is a forger of new and false Scripture all which are his presumptuous sins of his personal fact though his false Doctrine be not at all medled with for a threefold cord is not easily broken And now behold the condemning sentence that James Nayler himself hath passed upon such sinners as he hath proved himself to be which is thus where James Nayler is speaking of Christ Jesus in his book he calls Love to the Lost he saith But who says they know Christ and are redeemed and commits sin not keeping his commands is a lyer and so abides not in the Truth and anoynting and so is of the Devil and not of Christ for he that abides in Christ sins not These be thy words James Nayler but now James take notice how the Devil hath over-ruled thee to publish thine own shame and condemnation in print whereby thou hast rendered up the Quakers and also Quakery it self odious to present and future posterity and first for thy self Iames thou dost pretend in thy tenents That thou dost know Christ and art redeemed and yet thou hast made it appear even against all contradiction whatsoever that thou dost commit notorious sins and so thou dost not keep his commands nor dost abide in Christ for thou sayest that he that abides in Christ sins not but thou James hast made thy sins of thy personal act and fact manifest therefore by thy own mouth thou dost stand condemned to be a lyer and so art of the Devil and not of Christ and considering that you Quakers do refuse the imputation of Christ's righteousness wrought without you to be applied to you as being sinners for your justification Thy judgement is true James that thou art of the Devil and not of Christ and this thy self-condemning law being by thee recorded in print it must stand firm as the Law of the Medes and Persians to remain as an established monument to posterity testifying against wicked James Nayler himself and also against all such Quakers which are found to be sinners And now under my Lord Christ his protection I will try how many such wicked Quakers I can finde out by name not exceeding an ordinary volume for it appears that not onely James Nayler's Law will condemn them all to be of the Devil and not of Christ but also God's Law Exod. 20.16 doth condemn not onely James Nayler but also all such lying slandering Quakers as he hath made himself appear to be for God's Law saith Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour but James Nayler doth even upon his own record bear false witness not onely against man but also against God by his forging new and false Scripture Thus James Nayler hath set himself by a condemned man both by God's and his own Law And now beloved we are to take special notice hereto that James Nayler hath established the grounded Principles of Quakery largely in twenty four several Distinctions in the very self-same book which he calls Love to the Lost in which self-same book he hath firmly proved himself the Teacher of Quakery to be a lyer and of the Devil and not of Christ even at that time when he declared in print the Grounds and Principles of Quakery And this being well considered of what hope or expectation can there be in the least measure that any Doctrine can proceed from him that hath so firmly proved himself to be a lyer and of the Devil and not of Christ even at the same time and in the very same book wherein he teacheth the grounded Principles of Quakery but devilish Doctrine I say again what Doctrine can any manner of ways be expected to proceed from such a self-proved devilishfied man then devilish Doctrine And note also herewith That the same Principles of Quakery which James Nayler taught even when he proved himself to be a lyer and no abider in the truth and so is of the devil and not of Christ are received and taught by all right Quakers as if they were divine Oracles of God All which also proveth clearly against all contradiction That if the Quakers possibly could and would forsake their Practice in personal sins yet if they do not also therewith totally forsake their Doctrine of Quakery which is before proved to flow forth of a devilish
Fountain they will remain under the condemnation of God's Law because though they be sinners yet do desperately refuse the grace of Gospel-imputation and also the condemnation of James Nayler's Law fastneth on them that they abide not in the truth but are of the Devil and not of Christ And I shall prove That the Quakers do desperately refuse all Imputation when I come to discourse with the ten Quakers together But James Nayler a word or two more with thee and that is to shew thee how thy deluding Master to make sure work hath led thee to affirm That thy Quakers Christ is no Christ for thou being asked as in the 25 pag. of Saul's Errand Whether Christ as Man is in thee or no thou thereto didst answer saying Christ is not divided for if he be he is no more Christ but saidst thou I witness that Christ in me who is God and Man in measure These be thy words James and herein is much to be observed That by his affirming that Christ is not divided for if he be he is no more Christ and by his saying in full effect That Christ not onely as he is God but also as he is man is in him but in measure which is That Christ God and Man is but in part in him then the other part of Christ must needs be without him for he by his words denieth that whole Christ God and Man is in him and if he should not deny that then how would all the rest of the Quakers do to have their measure or parts of Christ God and Man also in them for if James Nayler had swallowed up whole Christ God and also Man then he would have left all the rest of his brethren and sister Quakers in a lamentable condition they having no measure or part of Christ God and also Man in them because Iames Nayler had devoured him all up But you see that Iames is more temperate then so for he doth acknowledge that there is but a measure or part of Christ God and Man in him and thereby he leaves out the other part or measure of Christ God and also Man to be without him for the other Quakers to divide amongst them Is not this a great kindeness of Iames â—hink you But thus Iames by thy affirming that Christ is not divided for sayest thou if he be he is no more Christ and by thy dividing of Christ by measure thou hereby affirmest in full effect That thy pretended Christ in thee is no Christ but a Satanical deluding Spirit in thee and truely in this sense I shall believe thee And thus your quaking imagined Christ whom you would fain have stand for a figure or example onely is by thee Iames turned into a naked cypher o signifying nothing or according to thy words no Christ or worse for wickedness is worse then nothing And now dost thou not see Iames how thy Spirit in thee doth over-rule thee to confute thy self in a few words speaking therefore remember this Iames for afterwards That he had need of a good memory that loves to tell lyes For know all ye Quakers That Christ's spiritualized and glorified Person of real flesh and bone cannot be a measure or part thereof in one man and the other parts of his real Person of flesh and bone in other men as you falsly imply though by his spiritual influences he is in all his Saints and you shall finde it so at last if you persist in your quakery THIRDLY Concerning Iames Milner I find upon record in a book written by Iohn Gilpin who was formerly for a time a Quaker during which time he declareth the extraordinary strange powerful and manifold delusions which the devil did act upon him in him but he being by Gods mercy delivered he giveth God thanks in that book for his deliverance from the Devil and the Quakers The book is intituled Quakers shaken printed in anno 1655. In which book he relateth That Iames Milner Quaker told the people that flocked to his house that he had fasted fourteen days and nights and that he must fast two dayes more for the saving of two souls to wit Dorothy Barwick and the Wise of Brian Fell of Ulverstone and he was so extreamly deluded by the Devil that he pretended himself to be a Christ and he said he must suffer as Christ did viz. to save the souls of the two women aforesaid And in a juggling inchanting manner with a knife and a bason he pretended his blood was shed and Milner said he gave up the Ghost as Christ did he said he was Abraham and Adam and his wife was Eve and that George Fox should be Iohn Baptist and he it was to wit Milner the false Christ that should come after whose shooe-latchet Fox was not worthy to unloose Milner also prophecied twelve strange Prophecies and set so short a time for the performance of them all that they were all proved to be false in a short time O monstrous what mad frantick fasting-fits were these But the Quakers fasting need not seem strange for it is evident the Devil did feed a great many of witches being the Quakers neighbors in Lancashire with inchanted dainty food not substantial in an old Barn not far from Bourule Now do not you Quakers perceive how the Devil rides you as Balaam rid his Ass when he would have done those things which God did not allow of Bear with me for I have the example of the great and holy Prophet Elijah which he used to Baal's Prophets in 1 Kings 18.27 And God in mercy hath enabled me to see that you are to be reckoned with them And Iames Milner by thy Luciferian pride to save souls as Christ did and by thy manifold great prophetical lyes thou must come under the lash of thy brother Quaker Iames Nayler's condemning Law aforesaid That thou art of the Devil and not of Christ FOURTHLY I do turn my pen to discourse a little with Christopher Atkinson Iames Lancaster George Whitehead and Thomas Simmonds four principal Quakers because I finde them in a junctual book by them called Ishmael and his Mother cast out more open-heartedly revealing their maliciousness against the Holy Trinity then some other Quakers have done But first Christopher Atkinson a word or two with thee alone Art thou straggled from Kendal in Westmoreland to Norwich in Norfolk I do verily believe that thou art the very same Christopher Atkinson which didst preach thy Quakery at Richard Collisons house at Kendal in May anno 1653. At whose preaching of Quakery the Devil himself did get such fast hold on Iohn Gilpin lately mentioned by his leaning to be instructed in thy deluding Quakery by thee then and there taught as appears in Iohn Gilpins book mentioned in my last or third Discourse But now joyning him to his other three Companions I shall proceed Their words are these directed in their 10th page to their Opposer Mr. Townsend then a Minister in Norwich And
here is say they to him the three Persons thou dreams of which thou wouldst divide out of one like a Conjurer What you foul-mouthed apostate Qâ—â—kers is the affirming that there is three Persons in the Unity of the sacred Godhead like the coâ—juration by the Devil Into what corner of Hell will you flie next for further directions do you not know that God the Father who is and ever was totally spiritual and never took upon him any Person of humanâ— nature as God the Son hath done that notwithstâ—nding God the Father is by his own Spirit in his holy Scripture set forth to be a spiritual Person where it is said in plain and full effect That God the Son is the express image of his Fathers person And if you Qâ—â—kers be not afraid that the holy Spirit doth inspire his holy servants to conjure like the Devil then you may venture upon it to read the 1 2 and 3 verses of Heb. 1. and there you may see that God the Father is affirmed to be a Person God is called Christ's Father often in Scripture And do you not know that the tide Father cannot possibly be rightly applied to a bare denomination or title onely without a Person must not any one be a Person first before he can be a Father methinks you might understand something aright And now concerning the holy Ghost Do not you know that out blessed Saviour doth often call the holy Ghost He where he saith But the Comforter which is the holy Ghost whom my Father will send in my Name He shall teach you all things John 14.26 He shall testifie of me John 15.26 And if you Quakers dare venture further then you may read John 16.13 14 15. Hah what 's that you Quakers say doth the Father send the bare name or title of the holy Ghost to teach men without a spiritual Person can the expression He be by our Saviour so often given to a bare name or title onely without a Person As for God the Son you do acknowledge that since his incarnation he is a Person but know you further That Christ is called God's Son long before he took upon him a Person of humane flesh which you may see in full effect in Psalm 2. So is proved That there was a Trinity of Spiritual Persons in the Unity of the sacred Godhead even from Eternity before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary and a bare name cannot be a Son though you Quakers blasphemously account the three Persons in blessed Unity of the sacred Godhead to be like the conjuration by the Devil And your hellâ—sh language breaketh out still more largely by your telling of Mr. Townsend in full effect therewith in the same page 10. That he is shut up with the three Persons in perpetual darkness for the lake and pit What is in this your language any less then if you said That the three Persons are shut up with Mr. Townsend in perpetual darkness for the lake and pit it can be no less Oh horrible to what blasphemous height of iniquity against the holy Trinity will you Quakers mount And yet further to avoid conjuration you do pervert the Scripture to uphold your dreamed delusions for whereas God saith Behold I am against the Prophets saith the Lord that steal my word every one from his neighbour Jer. 23.39 this place you produce as if all men that are not taught by enthusiasms without the Scriptures which with you are counted immediate Revelations from God and you cite this place as if all men that are not so taught as you are do steal their Doctrine which they teach from their neighbours onely whereas it is evident in that chap. Jer. 23. even against all contradiction that God therein reproveth the Prophets that say I have dreamed I have dreamed and then to plant in their dreamed delusions into their neighbours hearts they craftily did as you quakers do steal God's true Words from their neighbours but not to teach others therewith but to make room in their neighbours hearts to settle in their dreamed prophetical delusions and this proveth to be your diabolical conjuration And wereas you say in your first page That Moses wrote forth Scripture and not Letter but the Word Herein I have taken you in a notable lye also for could Moses write Scripture without Letters or Characters but Moses five Scripture-books written with Letters proves all your four quakers lyers Thus every way by James Naylers sentence you abide not in the truth but are of the Devil and not of Christ And as for your frequent maundring to exclude the Scriptures from being the Word of God Because say you they are not that Word which was God and because God spake to his Saints of old immediately or before Moses and the Letter was Are these good Arguments you quakers to prove that the Scriptures are not the Words or Word of God But see your wilful ignorant folly in this also for we are taught that the Scriptures are the Word of Christ who is God and that so they are the Word of God undeniably except you dare deny that Christ is God Construe this place you quakers Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs Col. 3.16 Can you not see that it is not here said Let Christ the Word God and Man dwell in you personally as you quakers falsly say in full effect that Christ doth so dwell in your bodies but contrarily the Scripture-exhortation even by the inspiration of God is this you quakers Let the word of Christ it is not Let Christ the Word dwell in you personally but Let the word of Christ dwell in you and it is in the same place of Scripture shewed what that Word of Christ is viz. psalms and hymns and spiritual songs And those spiritual songs or hymns are Scriptures and they are herein in full effect affirmed to be the Word of Christ and Christ is God therefore the Psalms or Scriptures are hereby proved to be the Word of God though the Spirit of Satan in you quakers will not say Amen to that truth because he feels that that Word of Christ the Psalms or Scriptures will and must destroy his Kingdom of deluding quakery and therefore you his servants in ordinary must though there be three sorts or several dispensation of God's minde to the sons of men in three several ages of the world that is to say First by his immediate words to his Servants until his Scriptures were written during which time his Servants declaring what God spake immediately to them was mediately their preaching of the Word of God Secondly by God's commanding Moses and his other holy Prophets to write what was his minde towards men which is the scope of Rom. 16.25 26. during all which time the Prophets declaring in writings what God spake immediately to them is the mediate Word of God Thirdly by Christ the Son
his inspiring his holy Servants his Apostles to write his minde to men during which time also even unto the worlds end those his holy Servants his Apostles declaring in writings what Christ spake immediately to them concerning men is the mediate Word of Christ the Son of God and God and so in truth are the Words or Word of God And fourthly God's book of his glorious creatures continuing even from the creation of the World to the end thereof being subservient unto all those three dispensations of God's minde to the sons of men to make up a sweet harmony in visibly declaring of God's incomprehensible Glory Majesty Power Providence Mercy and Goodness even throughout the whole World yet notwithstanding all this though the Spirit saith in Scripture Let the word of Christ dwell in you and do not say Let Christ the Word dwell in you personally and though the Psalms or Scriptures are set forth to be the Word of Christ and though it be not said as you quakers dream That Christ the Son in his established ordinary way doth now teach men by his immediate words without the Scriptures and though it be said God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the Fathers by the Prophets hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son note it is not said God doth speak to us by his Son as your tenents falsly say he doth now speak to men immediately but it is said God hath spoken to us by his Son Heb. 1.1 2. intimating plainly thereby That the Sons immediate speaking his minde to men in his established ordinary way of teaching them is gone and past and though it be said therewith to confirm that truth That the great Salvation at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by them that heard him which can be no otherwise since the Apostles deaths but by their Scripture-writings and though our Saviour did not say Father I pray not for these alone but also for all them that shall believe on me through mine own immediate words spoken by me to them as your quakers fantastick brains imagine but not so though that false sense is the quakers killing livelihood but according to Heb. 1.1 2 3. so also Christ the Son saith in his prayer Neither pray I for these alone but for them also which shall believe on me through their words John 17.20 so not through the Sons immediate words but through theirs his Apostles or Disciples words who at first heard the Son speak immediately to them who are to confirm those the Son's words to us which did not hear the Son speak immediately to them And fifthly though it be so that if the Apostles confirming of the Son 's immediate words to us be not taken to be by their Scripture-writings left to us that then the whole world of men that have lived ever since the Apostles died are totally deprived of the Apostles confirmation of the Son's words to us who heard not the Son speak immediately to them and so those vast multitudes of people have not had nor have not any means to know the great Salvation which the Son at first began to speak or teach to them his Apostles immediately for them to confirm to us mediately by writings which considered sheweth the vanity of the quakers deluded fancies And sixthly though St. Paul who affirmeth That he did not receive his Doctrine from man but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ Gal. 1.12 and so being an Apostle that heard the Son speak immediately at first to him also and so was one of them that did confirm those the Son's words to us in writing I say Though even he that great Apostle saith to the Thessalonians For this cause thank we God without ceasing because when ye received the word of God ye heard of us then not immediately of the Son not so but the word of God ye heard of us to wit of those that heard the Son speak to them immediately ye received it not as the word of man or our words but as it is in truth the word of God 1 Thes 2.13 And seventhly though Moses that admired pen-man of God's Works for us and minde to us hath discovered in his Scripture-writings the particulars of God's wonderful Works which he wrought in his first five days-works of Creation which were all past before any man had any being or before man was and therefore could not possibly be taught to Moses by any man but onely by God's teaching of him and though all this of God's immediate teaching Moses appeareth in his recorded written Scriptures yet even yet I say notwithstanding all these and many more such-like infallible inspired Scripture-Testimonies of God which do firmly prove That the holy Scriptures are in truth the mediate Word of God to us yet say by experiences which God hath formerly for my humiliation and instruction permitted Satan to act in my body for a time even the same strong delusions in kinde which Satan acts in your quakers bodies though my heavenly Father in great mercy hath delivered me from them yet I know that your quakers diabolical spirit in you will not permit you to acknowledge that truth though he doth give you leave frequently to affirm That the Scriptures are true as the Devil of old spake some truths to usher in his manifold deceits even so he over-powers you quakers though you say the Scriptures are true yet to deny the Scriptures to be any help in saving teachings and are led to deny in that respect the second dispensation of God's minde to men declared in the writings of his holy Prophets and also God's third dispensation of his minde to men by his inspired writings manifested by his holy Apostles And as he thereby limits the supreme holy One so he over-rules you to acknowledge but one dispensation of God's minde unto the sons of men And that by this his first dispensation of his minde to men by his immediate words that so the devil the father of lyes by his servants quakers may make elbow-room for his enthusiasms to teach men crafty devices closely contrived both to deceive themselves and others also and that his freedom in this destructive way may not be disturbed by the contradiction or controle of holy Scriptures he hath taught you the â—eâ—diest way to please him and you as cheerfully imploy your selves in his business And thus you four principal quakers have made your spiritual pestilential infectious black spots appear upon you to publick view and your brother quaker James Nayler's condemning Law aforesaid looks very fiercely upon you I 'll warrant you to justifie that you all are of the devil and not of Christ And herewith know you quakers That we your Opposers do not trust to nor expect to be taught by the Letter of the Scriptures written with ink on paper as you shrawme out against your Opposites but by the Spirit of Christ
Declaration against all Popery and Popish Points they thereto appeal to the presence of the living God of Heaven and Earth and in their 5 and 6 pag. they do affirm That they and every of them also do believe and know that Salvation cannot be merited by Works and all Doctrines in affirmation of the said Points they and every of them we do renounce and bear witness against and do deny all equivocation mental reservation and secret evasion whatsoever speaking the words of Truth in plainness by the help of God These be their words And now I shall make trial by their Doctrines whether these ten quakers be not such dissembling Hypocrites as James Nayler their brother quaker hath shewed himself to be yea or no. To which end we are duly to observe That George Fox their fore-man being asked as appears pag. 12. of Saul's Errand whether a believer were justified by Christ's righteousness imputed yea or no. He answered saying Every beliver is born of God and he that is born of God is justified by Christ alone without imputation These be his words And hereby George Fox their fore-man to make sure work in this query against themselves hath utterly refused all or any imputation of Christ's righteousness to be applied to the quakers for their justification even all Gospel-imputation of Christ's righteousness to them whether Christ's person be in them as they falsly say he is in them God and Man or that Christ's person be without them as in truth it is all 's one with them in this great Point of mens salvation for Gerge Fox their fore-man hath made no reserve but hath desperately refused all or any imputation of Christ's righteousness to them in general And as he in the behalf of the quakers hath totally refused the help of God's gracious Gospel so he and the other nine quakers aforenamed have together totally renounced and denied all meritorious work for mens salvation and so they have refused the help of the Law also But now see beloved what their own great writing teaching-brother quaker James Parnel doth affirm to prove all those ten quakers to be dissembling equivocating hypocrites a for he shrinks not to lay forth the true Grounds of quakery without any equivocation in his 2 page of his book called A Shield of the Truth he in the behalf of himself and all quakers there saying We to wit we quakers desire to be judged according to our fruits which is no less then if he had said We quakers desire to be judged according to our own meritorious works or fruits But yet whatever thus appears to be in the mental bosome-reserves of the aforesaid ten quakers to which but for brevity sake I could produce the testimony of more quakers yet the aforesaid ten quakers have desparately refused and cast away from their use not onely all Gospel-imputation of Christ's righteousness in general whether Christ's person be in them or without them but also all legal meritorious words as being no wayes helpful to them for their salvation And hereby they have strongly barred themselves quite out from injoying any benefit from God for their salvation either by his Law or Gospel for they have totally denied all God's revealed and established wayes which he did propound legally to Adam before his fall or hath at any time since his fall declared by his Gospel for the salvation of men and though God hath declared no other way but one of these two ways for mens salvation yet the quakers have as is afore shewed desperately shut themselves quite out from injoying any benefit from God by any of them both and yet doubtless the quakers do deludedly conceit That they shall be saved Therefore in pursute for the discovery of the depths of Satan in the quakers mystery of iniquity I am now put to search out what that hidden secret way is in which the quakers do confide for their salvation but I need not search much because I do see it appear that every quaker must be enabled to account and esteem of their particular person to be Christ or else for the causes aforesaid they cannot enjoy the least right quakish hope of Salvation I say again and shall stand to maintain it so long as God gives strength That if any quaker be not enabled by their grandsire Daemon to esteem and account of their own particular persons to be Christ who needeth not any imputation of righteousness nor any meritorious works to be applied or added to his holy eternal essential perfect divine perfection that so long as they are not so enabled to esteem of their particular persons to be Christ they cannot have the least right quakish hope to strengthen them to conclude they shall be saved but to obtain in themselves this quakish comfort it is evident that they do declare themselves to be Christ totally without sin as Christ is for so they plainly say As he is so are we in this world satanically perverting that Scripture 1 John 4.17 for that doth not say As Christ is in his glorified person in heaven without sin so are we in this world but it signifieth to us That as Christ is despised of many in this world and his Doctrine refused and by many contemned in this world and especially by the quakers that so his servants are by many despised and Doctrines contemned by many in this world and especially by the quakers in this Christian world but the quakers from that place of Scripture soar up with their Antichristian wings and affirm That they are without sin in them as some of them have said of themselves in my hearing and from hence they conclude they are Christ that needeth neither imputation of righteousness nor meritorious works to be added to them and from this ground conceited they also utterly refuse both those helps both of Gospel and Law also which is afore firmly proved from their own mouths and to say as the Truth is they to uphold their self-Christed indignity must upon urgent necessity do so for if they imbrace to them as needful for their salvation the Gospel-imputation of righteousness and meritorious works by the Law or either of them both then they do destroy totally their self-constituted perfect holy Christhood by their thereby acknowledging that they have sin in them that do stand in need of those additional helps for their Salvation and then drops not onely their self-advanced Christhoods but also therewith the devils whole kingdom of quakery is thereby totally destroyed root and branch for some of the quakers have said in my hearing That if any man have not attained to a full perfection from all sin in him before his death that that man hath lost all his labour in his striving against sin And as for your quakers satanical evasion where you affirm That though some of the servants of God fell yet by their confessing and forsaking their sin they found mercy These are your quakish confirming words And hereby your
is before shewed to speak the truth That in truth the quakers are of the very same many false Christs and false Prophets shewing signs and wonders for setting the quakers aside where is to be found in all the whole world any people professing Christianity as the quakers in a false way do that do declare themselves to be Christ and do apply to themselves Christ's titles and do take upon them to save souls and do declare themselves to be Prophets and do show signs and wonders as the quakers and no other people besides them in the whole Christian world do All which as it confirmeth the quakers censure That the quakers are of the Devil and not of Christ so is further still discovered that the ten forenamed quakers are lying dissembling equivocating deluding hypocrites And I will add nothing to their own begotten titles ELEVENTHLY I say to thee Leonard Fell That whereas thou art charged in the 9 pag. of Saul's Errand that thou Leonard Fell didst say That Christ had no Body but his Church and thou ownest those words to be thy words by thy thereto stifly endeavouring to prove those same words to be true and rather then fail thou hast wickedly falsified the very words of holy Scripture to prove that thy false saying to be true for where the Scripture saith God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself not imputing their trespasses unto them 2 Cor. 5.19 and though thou citest that place for thy proof yet thy deluding Tutor hath overcome thee to maintain his false quakery to render that place to be thus Thou having first said Christ came to redeem his Church which is a truth and as the Devil doth sometime say the truth the more easily thereby to deceive even so thou dost Leonard for closely following that truth thou trailest in thy falshood affirming That God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself for his body sake which is his 〈◊〉 And thus as if thy fingers were lime-twigs thou hast dragged these true words not imputing their trespasses to them out of that place which words concern the world and then thou hast Daemon-like craftily added unto that place in the room of those words which thou hast stollen out these words for his Bodies sake which is his Church which is flat contrary to that Text for those words by thee foysted into that place concerns his Church onely but the Text concerns the world But had Christ no Body but his Church sayst thou Leonard Why Leonard you quakers say That Christ is in your bodies God and Man Now Leonard hath Christ as you say he is Man in you no Body of his own in you but your bodies how can he then possibly be Christ-Man in you or within your bodies Again Leonard you quakers do frequently acknowledge both in writings and verbal words That Christ did personally at Jerusalem though you say as Christ-flesh is without men he is their example onely But had Christ no Body but his Church when he died at Jerusalem then if that saying of yours were true That Christ had no Body but his Church it could be no other but that his Church being his onely Body was slain and put to death on the cross at Jerusalem Fie fie you quakers when will you leave off your ridiculous foolishness But note my beloved that by their saying That they have Christ God and man in them and by their saying That Christ had no Body but his Church which is no other but this That Christ had no Body but his Saints bodies for his Saints are his Church and they say That they are his Saints and every ripe quaker doth say That Christ is in them as their tenents do declare Now these their sayings being compared together doth make manifest That every ripe quaker in their particular bodies are Christ for they plainly affirm That Christ had no body but his Church to wit in full effect he had no body but theirs his Saints bodies and so they would prove their own bodies to be Christ or else Christ had no body at all And this Logick of theirs doth so fully again discover that which is said of them in my last Discourse concerning their proclaiming themselves to be Christ their attributing to themselves Christs power and titles that it is worthy of much observation But know all you quakers That God's inspired Word his holy Scriptures are so far contrary to your satanical enthusemiated teachings that they do not onely deny that your bodies are Christ's body but they also do deny that Christ's person or body is in your bodies which to your shame and utter confusion you may behold where it is said plainly by two Messengers as it appears sent from Heaven in white apaâ—â—â— which also said Ye men of Galilee why stand ye gazing up into heaven this same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven Acts 1.10 11. And this place alone is altogether sufficient utterly to destroy your vainly conceited personal Man-Christ in you and also to pull down your spacious heaven which by your devil like perverting the holy Scripture you besotted quakers do imagine to be in your self-proved wicked bodies and to the very same end do you a spiring quakers vouchsafe to look down into these Scriptures Mat. 24.30 and 26.64 Mark 13.26 1 Thes 4 17. Rev. 1.7 1 Pet. 3.23 Phil. 3.20 Titus 3.13 1 John 3.2 And also know all you quakers That your betters and better taught even of God though you are taught of the Devil do say The holy Ghost is sent down from heaven 1 Pet. 1.12 and that Jesus Christ is gone into heaven and is on the right hand of God 1 Pet. 3.22 then neither God's essence nor the heaven in which God's essence is nor Christs person was in Peters holy body though your tenents brag that all these are in your bodies Again you quakers holy St. Paul said Our conversation is in heaven from whence also we look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ Phil. 3.20 then Christ's person nor the heaven which it is in was not in St. Pauls body Again you quakers St. Paul doth yet strike more fiercely at that your conceited Man-Christ in you where he saith Whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord 2 Cor. 5.6 and he explaineth what he means by the word body he calling it Our earthly house of this tabernacle vers 1. And by the bright and warm Scripture sun-beams your quakers Heaven and God and Man-Christ in you are vanished away into a noysome and stinking hellish fog and the Devil is laid open speaking in thee Leonard Fell by thy saying That Christ had no body but his Church and by thy so Daemon-like falsifying the words of the holy Scripture to face out thy lyes to be as if they were truth so fathering thy lyes upon God himself But Leonard I
the drift of it I shall for brevity sake onely discover some few of them to give a taste to all the rest and to this end I finde recorded by him in his 31 pag. he therein affirming That John to wit the holy Apostle Sâ— John though his peramount height would not stoop so low as to call him so but as being his equal if not his superiour he affirmed John said He that hath hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure but St. John did not say so for he saith Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself c. But James Parnel hereby not onely falsifieth the very words of Scripture by his taking the most significant word this out of that Text but he also therewith telleth a notorious lye against all denial by his affirming John said so and so he also fathereth his loud lye upon St. John by his affirming John said so He that hath hope in him whereas St. John said not so but said Every man that hath this hope in him But beloved it is worth our search to futer out the cause why James Parnel was so frighted as to take out of that Text that significant word this and we shall finde that if James Parnel had not taken out the word this it would have led his Reader to search further to know what is meant by this hope as distinct from all other hopes and his Reader would finde out in the very next verse going before that verse what St. John meant by his saying Every man that hath this hope for St. John in his very next precedent verse saith Behold now are we the Sons of God and it doth not yet appear what we shall be but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is 1 John 3.2 but then in the next verse St. John saith And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself c. vers 3. to wit that hope which St. John declareth in his 3 verse But James Parnel was so amazed at those words this hope that he craftily took that word this out of that Text before he could make any quakish Doctrine of it But why so why so say you Why if he had taken in those words this hope they would have discovered First That whereas the quakers say That Christ's appearing the second time without sin unto salvation is manifested and accomplished in them both as Christ is God and Man But even the Sons of God in that Text do cry down that the quakers affirmation as being a delusion of the Devil for they even the Sons of God do affirm the flat contrary and say in full effect That Christ had not appeared by his second personal coming not so much as to them therefore much less in them though the quakers say That Christ is in them God and Man Secondly Those words this hope doth discover that whereas the quakers do affirm That they are so like Christ even in these their dayes of mortality that they do venture audaciously to say As he is so are we in this world even totally without sin in them as Christ is for they affirm That if a man be not totally free from sin in him he cannot be saved But even the sons of God do even in that Text affirm against the quakers That they were not like him in the dayes of their mortality and so were not then free from all sin in them as Christ is nor that they though they were even the Sons of God yet were not then so like Christ nor should be untill his second personal appearing for they there say We know that when we shall appear we shall be like him and it doth not yet appear what we shall be Thus punctually the Sons of God do by those words this hope confound that the quakers luciferian comparing themselves in equality to Christ Thirdly Those words this hope do discover that whereas the quakers tenents do maintain that no man can be a Son of God until Christ's second appearing God and man be manifested and accomplished in him But St. John and other Sons of God do in that Text maintain in plain and full effect that the Saints are the Sons of God even before Christs second personal appearing to them much less in them And whereas the quakers in full effect affirm that they have Christ God and Man in them in possession the Sons of God do affirm by that Text that it is their hope that Christ will appear at his second personal coming to them and not personally in them in possession And thus the holy gospel-Gospel-truths comprehended under those words this hope in that Text mentioned do utterly destroy all the three grounds upon which the whole Doctrine of quakery is founded even root and branch Now was it not high time think you my beloved for James Parnel to flie swiftly away from those words this hope This hope quotha it is enough not onely to affright James Parnel out of his light quakish wits but it doth also confound all the quakers not onely these in all England but also all quakers in all the whole world although no other Scriptures which do maintain the same Gospel infallible truths be produced against them for those two verses 1 John 3.2 3 are a key as is shewed to open a door of truth which doth utterly destroy all quakery root stem and twig this hope quotha I wonder James Parnal durst venture to come so â—eer it but you may see beloved That Satan in him and with him did go as waâ—ily to work as they could for they first dragged that directing word this out of that Text and then so falsified they vapouringly howl'd iâ— forth as it were saying See here â—â—e purity of the quakers Behold John saith That the quakers have sâ—me kinde of hope in them And now note James Parnel's direct falsifying the very words of the Scripture again for iâ— his 30 and 31 pag. he saith He that hath sin and saith he hath no sin deceives himself and is a lyer Thus be insers That there are some meâ— that have no sin in them which â—elâ—â—th affirmed of himself in my â—earing of which hereâ—fâ—ere but thâ—se his added words He that hath sin did not in that Text 1 John 1.8 and 〈◊〉 by his taking the word this out of the Scriptures as bâ—â—â—â—e 〈…〉 his adding words unto the Scripture to delude people with 〈◊〉 â—â—volved himself not onely to have his part taken out of the book 〈◊〉 but also to have all those plagues inflicted on him that are written in the book as is in full effect shewed Rev. 22.18 19. and for his lying brother quaker James Nayler's condemning law also adjudgeth him to be of the devil and not of Christ And now to discover James Parnel's notorious lyes and fearful blasphemies mixt together in his quakish Shield of the Truth note That in his 29 pag. he saith
That it is a great delusion of the Devil to keep people in sin to tell them They shall never be made free from sin so long as they were upon the Earth and brings Scripture to prove it He that saith he hath no sin deceiveth himself and is a lyer but he to wit the Devil tells them Christ died for all and if they can but lay hold on him by Faith he will not impute their sins unto them though they sin dayly for the righteous man sins seven times a day and all the holy men of God sinned and he to wit the Devil takes Scripture to maintain his Kingdom And this he to wit the Devil delivers by the mouth of his Ministers which he to wit the Devil sends abroad to deceive the Nations These are his words onely those within the parenthesis excepted which do but lay forth his own sense which any man may easily see that reads them And now beloved note first That James Parnel doth violently strike at the very face of the Gospel of Grace for he in full effect saith that it is not onely a delusion but also it is a great delusion of the devil to teach men to know that there is no man that hath no sin in him which Gospel-Doctrine is maintained in plain and full effect in 1 Joh. 1.8 and to teach men to know That Christ died for all which are the Gospel-words of 2 Cor. 5.13 and to tell men That if they lay hold on Christ by Faith he will not impute their trespasses to them which saying is in plain and full effect maintained to be true Gospel-Faith in Rom 4.5 but James Parnel affirmeth in full effect That to teach men to know these gospel-Gospel-truths and words unaltered is no other but a great delusion of the Devil Doubtless some men do make evil of the Gospel of Grace by the Devils perverting of it to false deluding ends to them and so they are led to take liberty therefrom to continue in sin but it appears cleerly in that his aforesaid speech that this is not the mark which Iames Parnal shoots the Devils fiery darts at for he doth not finde fault that the Devil and his ministers do alter and falsifie the words of the Scripture and then use the Scripture so altered to decieve the Nations with but he luciferian-like affirmeth in full effect that it is a great delusion of the Devil to teach men by and with the plain Scripture-words unaltered and unfalsified which their toad-like venome being by them spat in the face of the Gospel of Grace appears evidently in that aforesaid speech of James Parnel's and the cause of all that their devil-like malice appears to be this because the infallible truth of the holy Gospel of Grace doth cry down their diabolically conceited-Christed Salvation by holy legal works wrought perfectly in mens bodies which is largely and firmly proved by Scriptures in this Treatise But the great and holy Apostle St. Paul that Gospel-Champion meets with them and he draws out Christs word and sword the Scriptures and therewith he strikes off the very head of that their imagined legal Christ in them at one Gospel-blow where he telleth both us and them also That he was set for the defence of the Gospel Phil. 1.17 and he saith thereto For necessity is laid upon me yea wo is unto me if preach not the Gospel 1 Cor. 9.16 Yet this their spite against the plain words of the holy Gospel-Scriptures is not the height of their malice against Gospel-truths for in that their speech aforesaid they do in full effect accuse all the holy Saints for their so freely and fully and truely acknowledging that they had sin in them which is to be seen 1 John 1.8 Eccles 7.20 1 Kings 8.46 2. Chron. 6.36 Psal 143.2 James 3.2 James 5.17 Phil. 13.12 13. 1 Cor. 4 4. and in many other places of the Scriptures but the quakers in that their aforesaid speech said in full effect that all those and all other such humble confessing Saints do teach not onely a delusion but also a great delusion of the Devil to keep people in sin and to maintain the devils kingdom by their so humbly and faithfully acknowledging that they had sin in them But now as they do vainly alledge against this in their records so methinks I hear the quakers yelling out and saying Ho Wade though St. David and St. Paul did once complain of sin in them yet after that they attained to full perfection and then they complained no more of their sin But you ignorant quakers see your folly in this also for the Prophet David doth rebuke you he saying Enter not into judgement with thy servant for in thy sight shall no man living be justified Psal 143.2 And now you quakers may see that by his affirming in full That no man living shall be justified in God's sight that the Prophet David doth even thereby acknowledge as fully that he himself could not either in or of himself in his own person be any ways justified in God's sight at any time so long as he was a living man upon the earth and this his humble and faithful plain acknowledgement doth firmly prove even against all contradiction that the Prophet David was not free from sin in him at any time whilst he live upon the earth and therefore he knowing that sin was in him that made him so affirm he did not say Blessed is the man that hath no sin nor iniquity in him but on the contrary to that he said Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity whose sin is covered Psal 32.1 2. So sin not being totally taken away but by Gospel-Grace not imputed or covered under the vertues of the precious blood of Jesus by his Gospel-Faith in Jesus And thus is fully proved that the Prophet David was never at any time free from having sin in him at any time whilst he was a living man upon the earth and thereby it is fully proved that you quakers are hellish seducing lyers And now concerning St. Paul he acknowledged that he was not free from sin even at the finishing of his course for as he affirmed he had sin in him Rom. 7. and acnowledged that he was not perfect in Phil. 3.12 13. even so along he further said I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith 2 Tim. 4.5 6. Now behold you quakers that St. Paul did not then even at the very finishing of his course glory that he was free from all sin in him No not one word so but he rejoycing in this onely when he had finished his course that he had kept the faith in his inward man intimating to releive him from his sin that even at the finishing of his course remained in his outward man or flesh which fully agrees to his saying in Rom. 7.25
the quakers malicious iniquity for in that their speech aforesaid they have in a high manner blasphemously seized upon the Holy Ghost himself also for they in that their speech have in full effect charged upon the Holy Ghost that he is the chiefest supreme Teacher not onely of a delusion but also of a great delusion of the Devil to maintain the Devils Kingdom by his the Holy Ghosts inspiring and thereby teaching all the Holy Saints aforesaid and all other such so humbly and faithfully to acknowledge that they had sin in them even when they were born of God and by his inspiredly teaching them to affirm that there is no man that sinneth not 1 King 8.46 2 Cor. 6.36 and also that there is not a just man upon earth that doth good and sinneth not Eccles 7.20 And now this their fearful blasphemy against the Holy Ghost himself being considered on and how fearfully the quakers I say the quakers because it is evident that they do highly esteem of that blasphemous book of James Parnel's now considering that therein they have also fearfully blasphemed against the Holy Ghosts teachings in the Scriptures they in full effect counting those Gospel-Scriptures not to be fitted by the Holy Ghost for any mans benefit but for the devil to take up unâ—â—ered to maintain his the Devils kingdom and also noting that they have therein so horribly blasphemed against the Gospel precious vertues of Christ's death and blood shed and observing that they have audaciously affronted if not blasphemed against the whole Trinity which appears in full effect in my fourth Discourse and considering how they are proved to be of those false Christs and false Prophets shewing false signs and wonders in my tenth Discourse and also considering that they have made it manifest in their Doctrines which are in the Treatise detected That they have trodden under foot the Son of God and do count the blood of the Covenant an unholy thing and that they do despite the Spirit of Grace these being the three marks appropriated to discover the sin against the Holy Ghost which is in full effect shewed in Heb. 10.29 and noting therewith how the quakers have from their own presumptuous wicked personal facts in full effect adjudged themselves to be of the Devil and not of Christ which appears evidently in my second Discourse and considering also that it is very well known that very many of them if not all of them have not onely received the knowledge of the Truth but have also been professors of the same before they were quakers but now they be fallen away from the Truth see how apparently all those destructive marks are found upon them that are mentioned in Heb. 10. from the 26 to the 31 vers It appears by and in all these respects and many other in this Treatise appearing that they the quakers are not onely of the false Christs and false Prophets aforesaid but also they the quakers are acting in the great and unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost and that they so persisting will run themselves unpardonably into the everlasting fearful curses thereto belonging notwithstanding whatsoever they are over-powered to conceit of themselves to the contrary And now thou James Nayler hast stopped thine own mouth from ever again uttering forth such a proud Goliah-like challenge as thou hast done where thou in the 23 pag. of thy Satan's Design discovered sayest And though we be counted the greatest offenders that ever was in the whole world by the heads of Sects yet is there not one of you that is able nor willing to judge us and our practice and judgement with the practice of the Saints in which they walked and plain Scriptures without meanings This is thy haughty challenge Iames. But now do you note That you quakers your own selves have even totally spared your Opposers that labour to judge you by the practice of the Saints which they have walked in for by your undeniable numerous presumptuous sins of your personal facts and false Doctrines you quakers have made it so manifest even against your own selves that you do walk in such notorious presumptuous sins which the Saints practised not which appears fully and truly in this Treatise that there is no need at all no not in the least measure for your Opposers to bring Scriptures neither with meanings nor without meanings to prove that over again which you have already so cleerly and firmly proved against your own selves that you quakers do walk in many notorious wicked practices even in a full affronting direct opposition against and quite contrary to the Saints practice and yet to make more sure work totally to spare your Opposers that labour Satan thy Master James hath exalted thee to be the Judge James in this cause and by thine own and the other quakers notorious presumptious sins though lurking under your outward glistering varnish yet judiciously to condemn thy self James and all them also to be lyers and so not abiders in the truth and so that thou and they also are of the devil and not of Christ which appears by thine own just law James by me related in thine own words in my second Discourse And thus thou thy self James hast made that thy aforesaid vaunting challenge not onely frivilous but ridiculous also And now considering that you sinful quakers do refuse the gracious help of the Gospel imputation I am constrained to leave you all under the justness of your brother quaker James Naylers fiery condemnation aforesaid And as for your thundring out severe charges and threatning fearful curses in print in full effect against all men that do oppose your quakery know all you quakers that I do set them all as light as levity it self even to be as ayry as your quakish legal couzen ing German the Popes roaring bulls and cursings with Bell Book and Candle for in the presence of my God who knoweth the truth hereof I do affirm as is before somewhat touched That he my heavenly Father for my humiliation and instruction hath formerly permitted the Devil to exercise his enthusiasms and seeming heavenly joys and speaking-voyces in me and to work his powerful quakish temptations in me distinctly as it were step by step even in the same manner that he the Devil doth now act and speak in you quakers and doth thereby teach you and over-rule you and deceive you quakers and doth also by permission thereby enable you to deceive others also And but for brevity sake I would relate at large the particular quakish gradations of the Devils former works in me how he would have perswaded me that I was Christ and he falling in that how he would have over-power me to believe that I should be a great admired Prophet and many other quakish luciferian exaltations he would have powerfully-fastned on me and in me sutably to the same order without Scripture-warrant even as he doth now work in all deceiveableness in you quakers and how that
1 Tim. 2.9 And now my beloved ones consider seriously that the Devils instruments can by the Devils power and permission work deceitful miraculous signs and wonders even as is deceitfully wrought at the quakers meetings and preachings even so powerful beloved as shall deceive if it were possible the very elect And now my Reader I pray thee to note seriously that in James Naylers before recited severe sentence of condemning all Christians that have any sin to be found in them in these words of his But who says they know Christ and are redeemed and commit sin not keeping his commandments is a lyer and so abides not in the truth and anoynting and so is of the devil and not of Christ These be his words And now I pray thee observe that he is led not onely according to his use falsly to add words to that Text 1 John 2.4 but also although our Saviour Christ hath made a cleer distinction betwixt his Gospel-commands and his Fathers moral Law-commands where he saith If ye keep my commandments ye shall abide in my love even as I have kept my Fathers commandments and abide in his love John 15.10 and although this distinction sets forth a true abiding in the Doctrine of Christ as but for brevity sake I could by Scripture shew much more largely yet James Nayler as aforesaid is satanically overpowered to confound into one law the Fathers killing moral law written on Mount Sinai and Christs mount Sinai's healing Gospel-law of life which runs in this and the like gracious tenure He that believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness Rom. 4 5 But as James hath done so whilst he remains a quaker he must confound the Gospel-law and the moral law into one and the same law or else as quakery cannot stand so James Nayler and the quakers could not so easily make choice of moral law works to be wrought in mens bodies for their saluation and so also the devil would fall short by his quakers to declare that they themselves are notorious sinners and yet do deny the Gospel-imputation and that so they themselves are of the Devil and not of Christ FOURTEENTHLY My fourteenth Discourse is directed to all the quakers for you quakers considering the plain evidences that your quakish conducters have published by their as it were throwing filthy stinking mire and dirt in the very face of all quakery Now you quakers haue a just cause not onely to howl but to howl out loud for it appears that you quakers are very expert in howling for John Gilpin in the 3 pag. of his book â—â—e calls the quakers shaken printed London 1655. affirmeth that whilst he was a quaker he was constrained to fall down on his bed where he howl'd in a terrible and hiddeous manner to the great astonishment of his family which he also there saith is usual with them to wit the quakers and also Mr. Samuel Clark in his 461 pag. of his book he intituled A Mirror or Looking-glass doth declare That in anno Christi 1653. there came some quakers out of the North into Wales to win some Professors to their party boasting themselves were perfect and without sin which some of the principallest quakers here have affirmed of themselves in my hearing and he declareth That at those quakers meeting there after long silence had such risings and swellings in their bowels sending forth such shreekings yellings and howlings as not onely affrighted the Spectators but caused the dogs to bark the swine to cry ond the cattel to run about to the astonishment of all that heard them but it can no ways be proved that people have shreeked as Night-Owls yelled as infernal Syirits and have howl'd as devoured dogs and wolves at peoples meetings at the preachings of the true Gospel of our blessed Christ and far much more less that dogs and swine and other cattel are then are thereby forc'd into such a violent distempered rage nor that little children who are utterly uncapable to understand either what is done or said at the preaching of the true Gospel do fall down and roar and their bellies swell and foam at the mouth then and thereby as appears that besides men and women so tormented that even little children also are in that manner fearfully tormented at the quakers meetings or preachings of quakery which the quakers do not deny though it be charged upon them which appears in Saul's Errand And I now acknowledging my self to be really a very unworthy Servant of my blessed Lord Jesus Christ yet I remain unto all true Gospel-believers and considers in my blessed Lord Jesus his death and precious blood shed without men and also to all them that do desire so to believe Their affectionate and officious Servant in Christ Christopher Wade POSTSCRIPT NOte That all James Nayler's proud Luciferian behaviours all his disciples blasphemous exaltations of James Nayler at Bristol even with no less then divine titles as appears in print are all of them strong confirmations of the justness of all the accusations that are charged upon the quakers in this precedent Treatise And it is to be marvelled at That considering the Scriptures do fight so fiercely against all your quakery that you quakers do not quite forsake all and any use of the Scriptures to support you and why you do not act from your enthusiasms only and alone and in your wandring courses to knock your hand upon your brest and say Here here 't is and then continue to tell the people a long story that you are sent from heaven and are taught from heaven but then it will be also to be wondred at how exceeding ignorant those people must be that will believe you And concerning your Mystery you so much boast of know all you quakers That the Mystery of God's will concerning men is not lock'd up in quakery but is made manifest by the Scriptures of the Prophets Rom. 16.25 26. and is also made manifest by the Apostles see Ephes 3.7 9. Ephes 1.9 Col. 1.26 but you quakers know it not And now my Reader thou mayest take notice conveniently That since my finishing of this my foregoing Treatise there is by providence come to my hands two short books printed both of them appearing to be composed by the joynt consent of two men whose names are as they therein say John Reve and Lodowick Muggleton who say That they are taught by immediate revelations from Christ himself as appears without God's mediate help by his Scriptures even as the quakers do in full effect say they pretend also that they onely are the two Witnesses of God mentioned in the Re elations they do say That their commission is to this effect they saying God hath chosen us two onely and hath put the two-edged sword of his Spirit into mouths that whom we are made to pronounce blessed are blessed to eternity and whom we are made to pronounce cursed are cursed to eternity and
will tell thee That by thy taking out and adding to the words of that bock thou hast desperately involved thy self not onely to have thy part taken out of the book of Life but also to have all the plagues fall upon thee Leonard that are written in that book as is in full effect affirmed in Rev. 2.18 19. and not onely God's Law thus fiercely condemns thee and all such false quakers as thou hast proved thy self to be but also thy brother quaker James Naylers condemning Law aforesaid doth adjudge thee Leonard Fell by thy self manifested evil behaviour to be a lyer and so no abider in the truth but art of the Devil and not of Christ and because you quakers do refuse the gracious benefit of the Gospel-imputation that James Naylers censure of thee Leonard is true and just TWELFTHLY My twelfth Discourse is with thee Martha Simmonds and truely Martha thy folly is so apparent that I could almost have seemed to have thrown by my pen and have left thee to have been censured by thine own gross ignorance by thee published in print but yet I shall do thee this favour Martha to help thee to see how the Devil deludes thee if it may be Martha I finde in thy bock which thou callest A Lamentation for the lost Sheep amongst divers quakish errors by thee therein manifested as birds of a feather will flock together that even so thou Martha also hast perverted and wickedly falsified the cleer and plain sense of holy Scripture to serve thy master Satan where thou sayest Now Jesus Christ the second Adam who is God manifested in the flesh condemning sin in the flesh if thou live in him in thee and believe in him in thee thou shalt witness his power to the cutting down of thy will for thy will must come to death that the will of God may be done and so that Scripture comes to be fulfilled in thee which are the words of Christ Lo I come in the volume of thy book it is written of me to do thy will O God which is the book of conscience in thee there the will of God is to be done These be thy words Martha And now know thou and all quakers That Jesus Christ is before now come in his own distinct person of flesh without men but not come personally in yours nor any other mans body of flesh which is largely and firmly proved in my two last Discourses so that a man is not so to live in him in him nor so to believe in him in him as thou falsly saiest for you quakers Christ dwells in no man any other wayes but by Faith which is in plain and full effect proved in Ephes 3.17 neither is Christ abidingly in any man no not in God's sons but by his Spirit which is also proved in Gal. 4.6 and from this ground Christ's Spirit is called the Spirit of Faith 2 Cor. 4 4. and from thence the Saints are said to be the habition of God through to Spirit Eph. 2.22 but not whole Christ God and Man in men but by faith and his Spirit and therefore these Scriptures do confound that thy saying Martha And whereas thou saiest That that Scripture Lo I come in the volume of thy book it is written of me to do thy will O God Heb. 10.7 is to be fulfilled in men It is so evident That that will of God in that same Scripture mentioned is already fulfilled in Christs person onely and never was fulfilled in any other person nor never can be wrought over again in Christs person neither for that will of God was fulfilled by Christs death in his being sacrificed but Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more death hath no more dominion over him Rom. 6.9 This again proves cleerly That you quakers are not Christ as you brag you are for Christ now cannot die but it is apparent that you quakers do die as other men do therefore you quakers are not Christ and yet you are so impudent that you dare to say That as Christ is so are you in this world but shame attends upon you But to proceed it is evident That that will of God in that thy cited place mentioned Heb. 10.7 is not to be fulfilled in any mans person whatsoever but as that will of God hath been already perfectly fulfilled in Christ's person by his being personally sacrificed without men whereby he did put a total end to the vertues of all or any typical sacrifices And this is so evident a truth flying even in the very face of that thy false and lying saying Martha that it would be altogether superfluous any further to prove it then to intreat my Reader to peruse Heb. 10. from the 1 vers to the 12. In which space Martha's wickedly abused vers 7. is included And again Nartha whereas thou saiest That by the volume of the book in that place mentioned is meant of the volume of the book of mens consciences it is evident against the Devil speaking in thee Martha that by the volume of the book in that place mentioned is plainly meant to be the volume of the books of the Prophets for the same words written in thy cited vers Heb. 10.7 Lo I come in the volume of thy book it is written of me do appear plainly in the Prophet David's book in his Psalm 40.6 7 8. and in the volume of the Prophet Moses book and Esay 53. and divers other Prophets do in the volume of their books speak so clearly of Christ's death and being to be sacrificed that it would utterly be time lost any further to prove against thy quakish notorious lyes which thou hast learned by-heart by thy accustomed dancing after the Devil's pipe And hereby appears That by your quakers luciferian-like bragging as if you onely were in the light and yet by your falling down so extremely short in the understandings of such cleer and plain places of Scripture and by your delivering such eternally destructive Doctrine from them you deliver up your selves to be one of the most deluded and deluding miracles and monsters of the whole world THIRTEENTHLY My thirteenth Discourse is directed to the four and twentieth quaker the mighty writing quaker James Parnel And now comes his fearful blasphemies tumbling out of his Thraso-like boasting lying book which he calls A Shield of the Truth for observe my Reader and though it be one or more of the self-Christed quakers I care not for as it were passing by James Parnels murthering of himself in Colchester-Goal by his inordinate and by Scripture-condemned fasting as he said luciferian-like to shew himself to be a Prophet of the Lord for people to believe in him which was not to believe his words but to believe in him to whom he promised the eternal joyes of heaven as I finde recorded and said to be licensed according to order And passing by the numerous bulk of his great quakish errors his whole book being nothing else but lyes in