Godhead is dead because thou saist it is revealed in every man so then if that spirit in that body be not Christ without that body but both body and spirit make that man Christ Jesus And thou ownest salvation by that spirit onely without that body thou ownest not salvation by Christ O Jeffery why wilt thon deny the Lord that hath bought thee with his own blood and bring upon thy self destruction for the Godhead dyed not as I have told thee but that body was made a curse by dying that cursed death upon the Tree to take off the curse from them that believe that sacrifice for sin which was a sweet smelling savour to the Lord. By which body offered up he hath for ever perfected them that are sanctified which sacrificed body and offered up bloud if thou reject how canst thou have thy cursed sins pardoned thy defiled conscience purged for without shedding of bloud there is no remission But I will tell thee my Faith I do own salvation cometh alone by that man Christ Jesus the only Son of God who was born of that Espoused Virgin Mary who was Crucified at Jerusalem by which cursed death he did there make an attonement for all and full satisfaction to God the Father for the sins of all that believe in him from the heart and obey his holy will revealed in his word the holy Scriptures of truth that are able to make the man of God wise unto salvation 1 Pet. 2.24 Heb. 10.14 Joh. 20.31 Mat. 7.24,25 Gal. 3.13 I could mind thee with many more Scriptures if thou wouldst hearken thereunto The holy Spirit of God I own and esteem for it is that which First made me to see into my sins and my cursed estate by sin according as is made known in the Scriptures of truth 2ly It did shed the love of God abroad in my soul how that Christ had dyed for my sins 3ly He did help me to lay hold upon the hope set before me without whose help I can do nothing 4ly He did work in my Soul a cruel hatred against all known sins in thoughts words and works 5ly He did work in my Soul a great love to my God and to his Son Jesus to his Children to all known good in words and works in my self and others 6ly He did assure me of redemption of my soul and forgiveness of my sins through the bloud of my Lord Jesus that was shed upon the Cross for me 7ly He did seal home the promises of Eternal Glory to my Sonl promised in the Scriptures of truth to the Sons of God 8ly He did work in my Soul holy reformation and godly resolutions to do and obey whatever my God shall make known unto me to be his will and mind by his spirit and word the Scriptures and that unto death 9ly It did fill my Soul with praises to the God of my life night and day praising him in the spirit admiring his love to my soul in redeeming it with so great a price as the blood of his own Son 10ly The holy spirit did also comfort me and quicken me and made me greatly to rejoyce with Joy unspeakable and full of Glory the which spirit of my God still is with me and giveth me that peace no man can take from me by whose help my desire is to my God I might still be preserved and hold fast the precious faith which I have attained through the Grace of God and my Lord Jesus Christ until he shall come in flaming fire to render vengeance upon the wicked and punish with everlasting destruction from his presence them that obey not the Gospel of Christ and be admired of them that believe Thomas Manning This Testimony of mine is owned by God the Father by his Son Jesus by the holy Spirit by the holy Scriptures by the holy Prophets by the holy Apostles Thou provest thine by two of thine own Friends God the Father I know his Son Jesus I know his holy Spirit I know the holy Scriptures I know to be the mind and will of God but who these thy Witnesses be I know not but if they be Angels come from Heaven if they despise the blood of my Lord Jesus Christ or declare any thing contrary to his will revealed in the Scriptures of truth I do not own them Thomas Manning I received thy paper and thou saist as soon as thou hadst looked on a few words thou saidst thou soon espied my subtilty Friend I had no subtilty in my heart but I plainly wrote the things I own thou askest me how I can prove Christ in that body to be Christ without that body I can prove it both by Pauls testimony and also by the same spirit of God the which Paul did prove it by who told the Corinthians the Fathers drank of the Rock that followed them and that Rock was Christ and he also told the Colossians that the mystery which had been hid from ages and generations past was Christ within the hope of glory and also Christs visible appearance came in that present age but his invisible appearance had been hid from ages and generations past for Christ was with his Church in the Wilderness Again thou saist that body and spirit in that body maketh that man Christ Jesus Now the spirit in that body was the Godhead and thou saist that the Godhead dyed not and thou speakest true for so say I so then it was only that part which the Holy Ghost took from the woman the which died and not the Godhead which both was and is the spirit of God for it was God and the Woman that made the visible man Christ for he was made of a Woman made under the Law as saith the Scripture for Mary she knew no visible man Now cursed be that spirit that shall deny the blood of Christ or the end for which Christs body was offered up and blood was shed for I do believe that all the world were reconciled to God by the death of his Son and that all men were freed from their outward offerings for sin by that one offering and that after the shedding of the blood of that visible man Christ upon the Cross there was to be no more outward killing the sacrifice nor yet shedding of blood for remission of sins But this was not the flesh and the blood which Christ speaks of when he was upon the earth when he said He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood he dwelleth in me and I in him and he was then upon the earth as a man like one of us sin only excepted when he spake these words So Friend if thou knowest no other body nor blood to feed upon but that which dyed and was shed out of Christs body without the gates of Jerusalem thy Soul may perish for all the knowledge which thou hast of the Scriptures Now Christ in the days of his flesh exhorted people to believe in the Light and to bring their deeds
And that Giles Barnardistons Wife did tell Dr. Bucher further that the blasphemy that I held she trembled to hear it This Dr. Bucher told me so I rest your Friend Jeffery Bullock Friends What you have written in contradiction to my words it is both Romish and Antichristian Doctrine and contrary to the Scriptures of truth and form of sound words For it is no where written in the Scriptures that we shall be either justified or condemned by that Christ which dyed without the Gates of Jerusalem but it is written by Grace ye are saved and by Grace ye are justified and it is also written by the Light of the world ye are condemed and not by Christ that dyed without the Gates of Jerusalem Now that there is two Christs it is plain according to the Scriptures for there is both the true Christ and Antichrist Now Christs visible appearance among the Jews he was called Christ who through the eternal spirit in offering up his body he ended all the visible dispensations among the Jews but it was Gods invisible appearance throughout all ages the which brought unto the Sons and Daughters of men salvation to their Souls and he is called Christ within the hope of glory and the mystery that had been hid from ages and generations past Now the Prophets they did foresee the coming of that body which was the Son of God who was to be the end of all those bodily sacrifices by which the Jews did expect remission of sins Now the same God that raised up Lazarus when he was dead and also raised up Jesus or the body of Jesus do I own to be both my God and Saviour Now as concerning the Law of Moses it did not at all belong to the Gentiles but the Gentiles were justified by the Law written in their hearts and so must we or else we must be condemned for the Law made nothing perfect as to the Jews who had a command for it therefore the Gentiles could have no advantage by it who had no command for the observing of it but on the contrary they were reproved by Paul for observing the Jewish Ceremonies but where the Dispensations began there they also ended Now we do no where read of the name Christ before that visible appearance came into the world but God said look unto me all ye ends of the earth and be saved for I am be that shews unto man his thoughts and he did not bid them look unto him that was to come and this was God who prepared a body for himself the which was the Son of God by generation from God and as a Son he was obedient to the will of his Father even unto the death Now Christ he neither came of David nor yet of Israel not according to the flesh not as to his outward appearance as he was a visible man but he came of David and Israel both according to the spirit and this is the spirit whom God hath exalted both as a Prince and a Saviour first as a Prince to manifest his power to condemn both man and woman because of their sin and rebellion and disobedience against him and secondly as a Saviour both to redeem them and justifie them and also to save them if they come to have their minds turned to him and to believe in him and obey him for the Virgin Mary knew no visible but now far be it from me and cursed be that spirit that shall undervalue the sufferings death and blood of that holy just and innocent Lamb of God but yet I do not believe that ever any were redeemed from sin or purified cleansed purged sanctified or saved by that visible body that dyed or blood which was shed without the Gates of Jerusalem Now Paul he that was the Apostle of the Gentiles he defired to know no Christ after the flesh Now the Jews in the days of Christs flesh said that they were Moses his Disciples but as for this fellow we know not whence he is Now in the Apostles dayes there was certain Pharisees that had believed who taught the Brethren that except they were circumcised and kept the Law of Moses they could not be saved Acts 15. Now the Church of Rome saith that we must be justified and also saved by that Christ that dyed at Jerusalem and so saith the Priests of England and so also saith the body of the Quakers And Friends Antichrist he strives to bring in his Doctrine and also to be head over all those invisible appearances that comes from God but the spirit of truth saith that Condemnation Justification Redemption and Sanctification and Salvation it is by God alone who is Light and sheweth unto man his thoughts Now Pauls testimony was in the spirit and not in the letter but the Pharisees the life of their testimony it was in the Letter or Law of Moses who with their Doctrine bewitched the Churches and led them into errour as you may read Paul to the Galatians and also to the Corinthians how he tells them that Satan was transformed in his Ministers for the Book of the Scriptures both was and is the fruit which the tree of knowledge bears both in their days and also in ours they being opened by the spirit of truth Friends it behoves us all to look to our standing for Antichrist is already come in amongst us and Satan is already transformed into an Angel of Light amongst some of our Ministers as certainly as ever he was amongst the false teachers in the Apostles days and if you will not believe what I have written then mind well the writing of those Brethren which call themselves the Eleven Elders to the Churches called Quakers and see if they do not put themselves into equal power and authority with God Friends first the form and then Antichrist appears in the form but if there be no conformity to the form then there is no unity to be enjoy'd with them that uphold the form So Friends my dear love is remembred unto you all who expect life and salvation from God who is Light and is invisible and not from any visible appearances although they were good in their time I have written you an answer to a paper that was given me by Giles Barnardiston in short and I have also sent you another more at large The Answer from the quarterly meeting at Ipswich the 28 th of the first Month 1676. In the Quarterly Meeting the papers sent by Jeffery Bullock of Sudbury were publickly read and the meeting of Friends did unanimously own the paper given thee by Giles Barnardiston and also subscribed by other Friends to be sound and according to the Scriptures and Doctrine of truth held forth by us but as to thine in answer to it the whole Meeting did unanimously judge it to be erronious and contradictory to it self and full of Confusion and Darkness and thy spirit manifest to be wrong Given forth from the Quarterly Meeting to be sent to Jeffery
particulars following First I must believe that they are as infallible as God is and that it is as impossible for them to erre as it is for God to erre Secondly That no man nor woman shall ever attain to any higher measure of the grace of God then they and that they are come to the highest Revelation that can be attainable by the Spirit of God Thirdly And that there is no more to be made known by the Spirit of God in the Sons and Daughters of men but what is already made known to them Fourthly Or if there be any thing more to be revealed by the spirit of God that God will make it known to them and to none else the which thing I cannot believe Friends I would have you seriously to take into your consideration some of your Doctrines and Principles which are commonly preached amongst us how they can stand with Gods Soveraignty Dominion and Glory that either the Seed or God should arise in man Whether the Light or Spirit Seed and God be not all one and the same thing And how came this Seed of God to be under or beneath in man And by what shall this Seed or God in man be raised again and from whence shall that power come the which shall raise up God or the Seed in Man into his Dominion again if he hath lost his Kingdom in man seeing that you preach that the Seed of God must be raised in man And whether the appearance of God in man to man by his Spirit be not for the quickning and raising of man both Soul and Body out of a state of bondage and captivity and not for the raising of God or the Seed out of bondage or captivity for the Light or the Creator hath not been in bondage and captivity but the whole Creation that God made in man that hath been both in bondage and captivity being under the power of Darkness for God hath not lost but the Gospel hath been hid in God whilst man and woman hath been lost You see and if you can either vindicate or justifie some of your Doctrines or Practices and also your Authority either by the spirit of truth or the Scriptures of truth or the form of sound words otherwise it is high time for you to lay aside your preachings among the people called Quakers and come and sit down with them in silence again Let the Eleven Elders or any of them or any that join with them write me an Answer for the vindication both of your Authority Doctrines and Practices For man in the beginning was created in the Light and the Darkness was near him but yet the Light had dominion over him and it was his habitation but Adam went out of Eden in the day of his transgression and then God cursed the Serpent and he also judged man for his disobedience and he was driven out of the Garden because of his sin and transgression but still God kept his dominion in the Garden over man to his condemnation and he placed the flaming Sword at Edens gate to keep the way of the tree of Life against the first man Adam so long as he did abide in a state of sin and transgression Friends the Kingdom of Heaven is within all men and women and Heaven is above Hell and the Light is above Darkness in all the Sons and Daughters of men and Life is above death and truth is above error and God that made the world is in the world and above the God of the world and the Light is the higher power and Gods Throne is above the Devils in all the Sons and Daughters of men yea in the wickedst of men the seed in both man and woman it is both God and Christ and it is above the seed of the Serpent in all as he is in himself and his dominion is over all who is God blessed for ever The seed is to redeem and not to be redeemed the soul is to be awakened and to be quickned by the seed that never sinned and to be raised from under the power of death and to be brought up into dominion by the spirit of Life over the power of death for the seed within must bruise the Serpents head within and deliver the Soul from under the power of death within for the seed is to quicken and not to be quickened and God is to raise and not to be raised Gods Throne is established in Justice and Judgement in wicked men over them to their condemnation because of their sin and transgression and his Throne is also established in love and mercy over them that obey him The Light is to descend and the day spring from on high is to visit the souls of the Sons and Daughters of men for they are to be lifted up by the arm of Gods power revealed from Heaven for man had his habitation in God once but man lost his habitation in God but God kept his habitation in man for the power of God in man he is above the Devils power in man for God that made man is in him and man is not above his maker nor the Creature is not above his Creator God who made all things by the word of his power and man also in his power this God was never disthroned but man was dispossessed of his habitation in God in the day of his transgression against God for the Mount Sion is above Mount Sinai and the heavenly Jerusalem is above the house of Bondage and God who is the Judge of all he is in all yea and above all that is in man or ever was in man who is God comprehended in himself blessed for ever Amen For God never lost his Kingdom nor Dominion in man although the Devil and man both lost their first habitation in God and the Devil is never like to enjoy his again but there is hopes for man and woman through their believing in the Light and receiving of the truth for them to receive life again Wherefore I do own the Light the Life the spirit and power in man to be both the resurrection and the life as he is in himself and he is also both man and womans redemption as by his power within their souls comes to be raised from death to life again but I deny the resurrection of the power and spirit of God in man or woman or that ever the seed which is Gods spirit and power that it ever came under the Devils power in man or woman or that ever the Devil had dominion over God wherefore God is not to arise in man nor woman but we are to be raised by the arme of his power revealed from Heaven within for the man-child hath been caught up to God in this long night of Apostacy which hath been over the Gentiles wherefore Christ the Light within stands in need of no blessing for he is everlastingly blessed and happy in himself without either beginning of days or end of life
and a Saviour Acts 5.30,31 And God will judge the the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained Acts 17.31 So we must confess with the Apostles that to us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and we in him and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things and we him And further we cannot own any such Doctrine or Words by whomsoever spoken as tend to undervalue the sufferings death and blood of Christ Rom. 5.10 for not only a reconciliation was declared and made through his death but all his suffering and his being the one universal Offering and Sacrifice did contribute to mans redemption and the salvation to all that truly believe in his Name Heb. 2.17 though without the washing of regeneration and being born again of the living word and spirit of life none do really partake of eternal salvation or that redemption which is obtained through the blood of Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity This is a true Copy Giles Barnardiston John Cutler William Welch Joseph Ridlesdale Samuel Cooper John Cornwell Friends What you have written in contradiction to my words it is both Romish and Antichristian Doctrine and contrary to the Scriptures of truth and form of sound words Now it is no where written in the Scriptures that we shall either be Justified or Condemned by that Christ which dyed without the Gates of Jerusalem but it is written by Grace ye are saved and by Grace ye are justified and it is also written by the Light of the world ye are condemned and not by Christ that dyed without the Gates of Jerusalem Now the same spirit which quickned that body of Jesus when it lay under the earth yea and the same God that raised up that body do I own to be both my Justifier and also my condemner if I sin against him Yea the same God which raised up Lazarus out of the Grave who dwelt in Christs Temple when it was upon the Earth the same God do I own salvation by that is he the which both did and doth shew unto man his thoughts who said look unto me all ye ends of the Earth and be saved for I am God and there is none else and he did not bid the ends of the earth look to him that was to come but unto him who was already in them and did shew them their thoughts and this was not Christs outward visible appearance but it was Gods invisible power which was in the Sons and Daughters of men the fulness of which power and spirit dwelt in Christs body when it was upon the Earth And this is God who was in the beginning and also before the beginning and also without beginning of dayes or end of life and this is the salvation of the ends of the earth who never dyed otherwise you must conclude the Godhead dyed as well as the visible man Christ the which is blasphemy for any to affirm and it is quite contrary to the Scriptures the which saith that he through the Eternal Spirit offered up himself a sacrifice once for all and he also gave up his Soul an Offering for sin And I do also believe there is something of God in me that is both without beginning of days or end of life and this is a measure or manifestation of the Spirit of God the fulness of which dwelt in Christs body when it was upon the Earth and this is both my God and Saviour and Justifier if I obey him and also my condemner if I sin against him Now the Law of Moses that was never written to the Gentiles neither had the Gentiles any command from God for the observation of it therefore the Gentiles they could never be Justified by it because they had no command for the keeping of it but on the contrary the Gentiles were reproved by Paul for the observation of it Now God was in all those visible appearances amongst the Jews yet it was by his invisible power by which he wrought those signs and wonders amongst the Egyptians and it was by his invisible power by the which Aarons rod budded the pot of Manna was preserved And it was the Lords invisible Glory which filled the Tabernacle and unto Israel he appeared as a Fire by night and as a cloud by day and after this God spake to Moses within the cloud and after these things he invisibly appeared ond dwelt in Solomons Temple and then at last the Holy Ghost overshadowed the Virgin and God prepared a Temple for himself by his invisible spirit and power the which Temple was the Son of God by generation from God in which Temple there dwelt the fulness of the Godhead bodily and when the Son of God or the Lamb of God had finished his testimony in this world he then did through the Eternal Spirit which dwelt in his Temple offer up himself a sacrifice once for all Then was all outward Temple worship ended for the glory of God out of Solomons then departed For then the Vail of the Temple was rent in twain and also the worship was ended although the Lord once gave the Jews a command for the observing of it But as for the Gentiles they never had no command from God for the practising of those things therefore what they did they did it by imitation and not by commandment Now Christ he was not the Son of David as by generation from David as he was a visible man for Mary she was a Virgin and knew no visible man but Christ he was the Son of David by generation from God he being begotten by the spirit of God in the Womb of the Virgin and this was the spirit of God in David from which spirit David received power to be regenerated and born again and this was the flesh of David and this was Davids Lord. For Christ he was not the Son of a visible man but he was the Son of a visible woman he being begotten by an invisible power and spirit now if salvation be by that Christ that dyed without the Gates at Jerusalem then are all the Gentiles perished that were in the world before that body came into the world for I do not read that ever any of the Gentiles saw the coming of that visible man Christ whenas the world had continued near four thousand years before he came into the world yea all the Jews that were in the world before that body came and did not see the coming of that body nor own it when it did come they likewise are perished yea all both Jews and Gentiles the which have been in the world since those dayes who have not owned him to be the Christ and the Saviour of the world who dyed without the Gates of Jerusalem they likewise are all perished but and if salvation be by him that shews unto man his thoughts and reproveth man and also convinceth him and condemneth man and woman for
Bullock in Sudbury I do disown my self to be a Member of the visible Church called Quakers for these particular reasons and causes following neither do I desire to have unity nor to seek to have peace with the Church in those actions wherein they set up themselves as Judges among or above their Brethren as the Eleven Elders called Quakers have done First I disown all superiority of men Ministers or Elders in the Churches called Quakers or any who assume Authority to themselves above the rest of the Members to judge and determine things in matters of conscience the which thing only belongs to God in every one 's own particular 2. I disown my self to be a member of that Body or Church which saith He that is not justified by the witness of God in Friends is condemn'd by it in himself 3. Which saith That none are to Minister or Preach but such as are reconciled to the Church and have the approbation of the Elders and Members 4. Again I do disown both the censures and judgement of that body or Church who look upon themselves that they have both a right and power to judge of errours and yet have not power to convince the parties of their errors before they pass judgement upon them for those things which they call errors for Christ he convinceth both man and woman of their evils before he either judgeth them or condemneth them for their evils 5. Again I do disown my self to be a Member of that Church who will not admit me to take the liberty of my Conscience in matters of Doctrine and Principles in the Worship of God the outward life and conversation that being blameless and I being satisfied in my own conscience that the thing is both right and true which I do own 6. I disown my self to be a Member of that Church who will not admit me to believe and speak what God by his Spirit makes manifest in me for the Articles of your Church Faith and Belief they are concealed from me so that in plain English words with sense I cannot them neither read nor understand so that I question whether this practice of the Church doth not surpass plain Popery for they have given forth the Articles of their Faith as concerning Doctrine 7. I disown the resurrection of the power or the arising of the Seed or God in man or that ever the Seed or God was either in Captivity or Bondage or that it was ever lost or that the Light in man was ever blinded or the Image of God defaced or that the Seed hath been under the corrupt heart of man or that ever Darkness were over it or that ever God lost his Kingdom in man as he was in himself 8. Again I disown that to be any true Ministry for God who in their declaration do exhort both Friends and other people to come to a sense and to wait in a sense and to abide in a sense and continue in a sense for God is not a sense neither is his spirit a sense for the senses are things that were made by the power of God and in the power which made them they are to be exercised and so such Doctrine it is not only unsound but it is contrary to the Scriptures and also the spirit of truth and form of sound words for it is old Antichrists Doctrine the which Sathan brought in among his Ministers in this long night of Apostacy among the Gentiles when the Churches lost the injoyment of the Grace Manifestation or Revelation of the Spirit of God then they preached from a light and a sense for the Beasts of the Field they have both senses and knowledge and what preheminence hath a man above a Beast if he be not in God that made him for all things the which a man enjoys below the Light they are accompanied both with vanity and also vexation of Spirit for there is no other God Saviour Angel nor Spirit to be known in and amongst the Sons of Men but the Light that shews unto man his thoughts besides the Spirit and Power of Darkness and what God made in man in the day of his first Creation 9. Also I disown my self to be a Member of that Church who are gone from Christ the Light of the world within them the power which God revealed from Heaven in this our age and generation wherein alone Life and Salvation Justification and Condemnation is to be known and are returned back again to the professors Christ and Saviour who dyed without the Gates of Jerusalem who make it their work to declare against all salvation both by God and Christ the Light within the which the professors of this our age and time do 10. I disown all yoaks of bondage dictates or impositions whatsoever I disown your printing of several Books and imposing them upon all Friends Meetings throughout this Nation and enjoyning them to take them off a thing that I never heard of before amongst any people 11. I disown your enjoyning one Friend to match with another Friend or else you will not admit them to come together whenas God hath made all Nations of one blood and so remember that Moses took an Ethiopian woman to wife contrary to the command of God and yet God justified him for it and he also condemned both Aaron and Miriam for speaking against Moses for so doing Again the two Sons of Naomy they either of them took a Moabitish woman to wife and I never read they were reproved for their so doing and Ruth she proved a good woman So Friends I leave you to the witness of God that is in you for I little thought that ever Antichrist would have appeared with such an old Vizard as to raise up a body of Judges among us Quakers in matters of Religion and Conscience whenas we had suffered so much already by outward Judges because we made use of the liberty of our Consciences in the things of God Friends a thing which was never practiced among the primitive Christians Friends 1. What is the Tree of knowledge as it is in it self and what is the fruit it bears and from whence doth the fruit come and what is that which feeds upon it seeing it is desirable to make one wise and whether the fruit be all the same now as it was in the beginning 2. What was the Eden wherein the first man Adam was placed and what was the Garden wherein God walked after Transgression entred when he spake to Adam in the cool of the day 3. What is the Enmity which God put between the Woman and the Serpent and between his Seed and her Seed and what was or is the Woman 4. What was the Man that was drove out from God into the Earth because of Transgression seeing the visible body did remain in the visible Creation after his transgression as visible as it did before 5. What is the Image of God or what is the Soul of Man for there
is a distinction between them for the one hath been Corrupted by the man of sin but the other never saw Corruption nor yet never consented to sin 6. Whether Death had any Dominion in the Tree of Knowledge before Transgression or whether he took his Dominion in the Tree of Knowledge by mans transgressing the Commands of God 7. And what were the Eyes that were to be opened in Adam and Eve after the Devils temptation had entred them and they had broken the Command of God when they became as Gods 8. Whether the Seed of God that never sinned hath been under the bondage of Corruption and so is to be redeemed from under Corruption although he never sinned nor yet saw Corruption for the Seed is God himself and whether it is not the Soul of Man that hath transgressed that is to be redeemed by the Seed and not the Seed to be raised nor yet redeemed it being both God and Christ 9. And whether the Lamb of God was slain before the foundation of the World or since the foundation of the World or what was the Lamb of God or is the Lamb of God which was and is slain seeing that Christ is without beginning of dayes or end of life and he is the same now that he was in the beginning and he ever lives and never dyeth 10. What is the partition Wall and what doth it separate betwixt and where is the place it stands 11. What is the Vail as it is in it self which is over the understandings of people who are in outward profession 12. And how shall a man rightly understand and come to have a certain knowledge in himself manifested unto him whether his Soul feeds upon the fruit of the Tree which Knowledge bears or whether it feeds upon the Tree of Life or how he shall really come to understand whether his Soul be under the Dominion of Life or whether Sathan be Transformed in his Mind Knowledge and Understanding 13. Whether there be a will or power in either Man or Woman to believe in Christ the Light within or to receive the truth they having lost their first state wherein they had power but now are found under the power of darkness by the Light and in a state of degeneration from God 14. When is that Resurrection to be known that Christ speaks of when they neither Marry nor are given in Marriage but are as the Angels of God seeing our visible Bodies shall ever abide in the dust and what is that honourable Marriage the Apostle speaks of where the Bed is not defiled through Lust 15. And what is the Dead that is to be raised in the Sons and Daughters of Men seeing the Son of God never dyeth but the dead is to hear his voice and live and how shall the dead come to receive power to arise 16. And what are the Two witnesses that John speaks of which the Spirit of Life is to enter into before they can bear a true Testimony for God 17. Whether the Two Adams are not in the World yea and the man of sin too who is the Son of Perdition and whether something of these Three are not to be found in every Man and Woman 18. And whether the Woman that hath been in transgression both in the Male and Female ought not to be kept in silence although redeemed out of transgression and so the power of God to speak in all and she to be kept under subjection by the power that hath redeemed her and so all to feel the Woman kept in silence until the power of God is declaring the work of God in them which power hath redeemed her 19. What was the work of the Spirit and power of God in Christs Body whilst his Body was upon the Earth and what is the work of the Spirit of God in our Body whilst we are upon the Earth and whether the power of Darkness were not in his Body yea or nay 20. Whether the power of Darkness which is the Original of sin be not in every Child when it is first born and come into the visible World and the power of God also and yet the Child not guilty of Original sin 21. Whether a Man or Woman may not receive the truth and so by it come to have their minds knowledge and understanding Baptized with the Holy Ghost and yet after this Sathan may transform himself in the hearts minds and understandings of such as before had received the truth and whether such may not have a strong perswasion begotten in their minds that they are feeding upon the Tree of Life whilst they are declaring of words to others and yet all this while they are but a feeding upon the Fruit that the Tree of Knowledge bears or upon the Scriptures that were given forth from the word of life in the days of Old 22. And whether the power of Darkness doth not remain in a Man or Woman as he is in himself after that they are Regenerated and born of the Spirit of God 23. What are the Books that are to be Opened which John speaks of and how many Books are there to be Opened This Book is given forth by one who hath born the name of a Quaker about 20 years or more and he still owns the Light in every Man to be the only rule for man to walk by but I own my self to be neither Priest nor Prophet Apostle nor Elder Pastour nor Teacher Bishop nor Deacon but an Informer against Antichrist in his Ministers This Book is not to be Sold but freely given by the Author he having freely received this Testimony from the Lord Jeffery Bullock ERRATA Page 1. line 28. for heart r. hearers p. 2. l. 38. for sole r. Soul p. 7. l. 3. add And so I would have p. 8. l. 38. after the word been add these words so blinded that he could not see his sin by the Light but mans mind hath been p. 14. l. 35. r. books are there to be opened p. 15. l. 28. r. Spirit of our God p. 16. l. 25. r. and we by him POSTSCRIPT MY intention in giving forth this Book is That Men should learn to honour the truth before themselves and also for the overturning of all such who look upon themselves to be equal in power with the truth and for the discovering both of your Doctrines and Practices which are contrary unto the truth and also for the discovering of the Transformations of Antichrist and his Ministers Friends You do show more Homage Reverence and Obedience to the form outwardly then you do to the power of God inwardly Now God requires that all men should both Worship Honour and Obey the Spirit of Truth which he hath placed in every man and hath given it them to profit with all for God hath placed mans Salvation in it But Friends in this you do both Worship and Adore the form outwardly beyond the power for when you are come together to a Meeting then you
can sit down together in silence with your Hats on and as every ones mind is turn'd into the Spirit of Truth and also kept under subjection by the power of God here every one is kept in the true worshipping of God although there be never a word declared nor spoken and yet the men may keep their Hats on if they please but and if any amongst you pretend to be moved by the Spirit to go to prayer then both Men and Women they either stand up or else they kneel down and the Men they all pull off their Hats which owns your form of prayer and herein you do both worship Reverence and Adore the form outwardly and the words more then you do the word of Life in your own particulars wherein alone the Souls salvation is placed and thus it hath been the work of the Spirit of Antichrist throughout all ages to lead people to give more honour to the form of founding Brass or tinkling Cymbals more then to the power of God that 's in them wherein alone mans happiness stands So Friends I would have you to vindicate this practice of yours if you can otherwise it is high time for the Quakers in general to lay aside their worship in reverencing and adoring the form outwardly But yet I would have none that read this Book to rejoyce because that I have written against the Quakers Ministers but let those that think they stand take heed lest they fall Friends whatsoever is written or given forth from me in this Book which is on my part it is written either from a measure of that Spirit which hath power to open my understanding and also the Book of the Scriptures or else it is given forth from Sathan in me transformed into an Angel of Light wherefore to the Light that shines in all your Consciences that read this Book do I refer this Book for Judgement But the Quakers from their general Meeting say That I writ from an erronious and dark Spirit but that lies upon them yet to prove I have yet another Book that is written in and from the Spirit of God the tendency of which Book is for the overthrowing of all Antichrists Ministers in this Nation the which will abundantly tend to the Honour and Glory of God and also greatly to the outward advantage of the chief Men of this Nation and also will bring a Blessing both upon them and their generation If any one has freedom to be at the Charge to Reprint this Book to give it away when he hath done he may freely do it Jeffery Bullock This following is an Abstract of what George Bishop writ against that PAPER of ORDERS aforementioned which was subscribed by Eleven of your Ministers viz. George Whitehead John Whitehead Thomas Green Thomas Briggs Alexander Parker Josiah Cole Richard Farnsworth Thomas Loe. Stephen Crisp John Moon James Parkes IN the Apostles dayes were Pastors Teachers Elders c. but in this day the Spirit it self is the Pastor Teacher Elder c. So that if the Spirit move any to Declare or Speak that is the Apostle Teacher Elder c. So that we have not now things in the disposition of Persons nor according to Persons but in or according to that power which moves in every one which being kept too preserves out of the Apostacy so I know no Pastor Teacher Elder c. But as I find moving in any to any of these things for that is the Elder the Apostle Teacher c. and that which would be otherwise then this leads into the Apostacy and will seek to bring dark night in again and so will place the Thing to the Person and not the Person to the thing and for my part if that day should prevail or those things which Your PAPER seems to hold forth and inforce I have no other Expectation but that the same exercise we shall receive at your hands as we received at the hands of those who would have held us in Captivity in the day that the Lord first visited us The Seed is come and the Heir in many who is not to be under Tutors and Governours which must not be limited to turn unto which or for the good of which the Ministry was sent and in which it is to end it being the end of the Ministry unto which its Crown is to be laid down as to that which is worthy and this is no derogation to the Ministry Now for You because You have Ministred and the presence of the Lord hath been with You for the good of those that are to be Heirs of Salvation to think to settle Your self in the place of the Heir and to inforce Your Orders as instead or over that this is not to allow that the Seed is Come or that it is of age for to abide in the House for ever You must not think that because the Lord hath wrought by You that therefore he will not work otherwise This is the Error into which all have fallen that are turned from the Truth Therefore seek not to undervalue that to which You were sent to Minister nor endeavour to keep under the Seed for that will Break You to pieces The Revelation of God is to his Seed and his Secrets he reveals to it for which he made the World and for whose sake it is continued and now the Seed is raised to reign over all which will Cast You out and the Parable of the Husband-man will be fulfilled upon You. It is my Love that gives me this plainness of speech for I am Jealous of every thing that may bring dark Night over again or that may hinder Your Work or lose Your Reward with the Lord for the Son must abide in the House for ever but not the Servant therefore take heed how You set up Your Laws and Constitutions over his Dominion or how You take upon You to make Laws to his Dominion who lives for ever Many have attempted it and have been Broken to pieces and if You do the same the same will be Your Portion from the Hand of the Lord. The END