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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30539	Satans designs defeated ...	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B6022; ESTC R14163	16,232	20

Satans Designe DEFEATED In a short Answer to a Manuscript sent by a Priest out of Sussex to a Member of this present Parliament full of railing accusations whereby he hath secretly smitten the Innocent by a secret desiring the persecution of the People of God But herein his folly and madnesse doth appear that 〈…〉 he hath accused others falsely himself is found guilty of the same thing With Invitations of Love to the present Authority that ●●●y may save themselves from being the executioners of the Priests malice least the Lord destroy them By a Friend to Righteousnesse E.B. LONDON 〈…〉 Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate 1659. A Certain Paper being come to my hand which is said to be written by one Priest Iackson and sent to a member of Parliament containing divers particulars charged as errors upon the despised peopl● called Quakers wherein he saith he hath set down some of their Tenents which they maintain unto which Manuscript I am moved to write something in answer as to clear the truth from his fowl aspertions which he casts upon it to the intent that the said member of Parliament and the whole house may be the better satisfied and resolved wherein they doubt of every particular that the truth may appear when as the fowl vail of the darknesse and slanders is removed That the Holy Scriptures are not the word of God nor the Saints Rule of Faith and Life neither is it the duty of every one to search them Answ. The Holy Scriptures that were given forth by the Spirit of the Lord as holy men of God were moved they are the words of God and a Declaration and a Treatise Luke 1.1 and that which the Saints had handled and tasted of the word of Life that they declared forth in words and writing Acts 1.1 and the Scriptures as they were given forth by the Spirit of God are a true declaration of what is to be believed and practised in relation to eternal salvation it is a true Testimony concerning God and his mighty works and of truth and righteousnesse and it is a Testimony also of the Devil and what he is and of his deceits and errors and unrighteousnesse so the Scriptures are words given forth by the spirit but Christ is the Word that was before the Scriptures was for in the beginning was the word of God and the World was made by it and the Word shall endure for ever and Christs Name is called the Word of God and though the Scriptures are profitable and were given forth to be read and to be fulfilled yet they are not the rule and guide of faith and life unto the Saints but the Spirit of God that gave forth the Scriptures that is the rule and guide the Teacher and leader into all truth and them that are led by the spirit of God are the Sons of God and if you walk in the spirit saith the Apostle you shall live and as many as walk according to this to wit of the Spirit peace is upon them and so the spirit of God is the rule of the Saints faith and life and the spirit leads them to walk in the fulfilling of the Scriptures and according to them And as for all the Priests in England who doth professe the Scriptures to be their rule out of their own mouths will God judge them who are found walking contrary to the Scriptures in life and doctrine and practises while they cry it up for their rule and condemn all that will not say as they say And the last part of this proposition is utterly false for we never do assert that it is not the duty of every one to search them but we bid every one search the Scriptures and every one ought to search them but yet we say that none understands them but who have the spirit that gave them forth nor none can profit thereby but by the spirit that gave them forth which workes the same truth in the heart which the Scriptures without declares of and this I do affirm they are the words of God and the Spirit of God is the rule of Faith and Life to the Saints and all men ought to search the Scriptures and to believe what is therein written and to receive and enjoy Christ who is the substance and the end of all things the first and last the beginning and ending and in him the Scriptures are fulfilled and finished They do deny the Doctrine of the Trinity and that Christ is God and man in one person Answ. As for the word Trinity it is invented and he hath learn't it out of the Masse-Book or Common Prayer Book but we own the Doctrine of the Gospel of Christ that Christ is God and the Spirit is God and there are three that bear record the Father Son and Spirit and these are one but God and the Spirit are not persons but infinite beings and the Scripture no where in true Translations expresseth God under the name person for person is too carnal to expresse God and Christ and the spirit by but God was in Christ reconciling the World and this we believe and acknowlelge according to the Scriptures but for this word Doctrine of the Trinity the Scriptures knowes no such word but the truth we own and the Gospel and the Scriptures too They hold that Iesus Christ died onely signally or exemplarily and that we are justified by the suffering of Christ in us and to be healed by his stripes is to be stripped of or from sin Answ. Jesus Christ died and rose again and ascended according to the Scriptures this we do believe And Christ was and is the substance the end of all signes and examples yet was he an example to the Saints And the Apostle exhorted to walk as they had Christ for an example and while he was in the World he did and spoke and acted many things as Parables signes and examples the substance of which is to be received in the Saints and known by them through the spirit and we believe Saints are justified by the Christ and through faith in him which was and is is to come who is blessed for ever and none are justified by his death and suffering and blood without them but who witnesseth Christ within them for all are reprobates and to be condemned and cannot be justified that hath not Christ in them as thou mayest read except Christ be in you you are reprobates and all that believe in Christ and receives him they are healed through his sufferings and stripes for he sanctifies them and gives remission of sin and justifies them and in him the Saints are compleat and the new man the regenerate is justified and the old man is in the degeneration and knowes not Christ in him and hath not received him but onely heard of him without him and believes the relation but this faith doth not justifie for all the false Christians upon earth hath this

by giving them tythes and Stipends and mony and hath spoiled Peoples goods and cast their bodies into prisons even of many hundreds that would not pay them And yet the Nation should be left in darkness and like a untilled wilderness notwithstanding all the Profession of Preaching the Gospel for the Nation hath been like an untilled field and like People like Priest like shepherd like sheep as it is especially amongst them where Shepherds and sheep are risen in Rebellion against the Nation and hath joyned with the old Caveliers but this shewes that your Preaching hath been for ends to your selves and for mony and that you have been Ministers of the Letter and not of the spirit nor of the power of God for had you been in the life and Preachers of the true Gospel the Nations had been as a garden at this day and not like an unploughed field as we see they are people abounding in ungodliness and in all pride and vanity which is a shame to Christianity now People and Ministers hath made a shew of the Gospel but hath been without the power in the form of godliness and have had the form but resisted the power And indeed the ignorance of the people will lie upon their Ministers who hath been crying peace to them that have walked after the imaginations of their own hearts and hath not turned the wicked from his wicked way and the Scriptures are fulfilled upon them they have run but God hath not sent them therefore the people hath not at all been profited by them but the light of the glorious Gospel is risen in mens hearts and your folly and vanity is discovered and that makes you rage and swell like a foaming Sea now when your shame is seen you are casting out slanders and reproaches thinking thereby to seduce the minds of people thinking alwayes to keep the Magistrates on your side and to ride upon them and that they will establish you in freedom and destroy them that are against you but the Lord is opening their eyes to behold your deceit and madness and you will be left unto your selves and fall into the pit that you have digged for others And whereas this Author doth further compare this poor people which he in scorn calls Quakers with several pestilent Hereticks as he calls them that have disturbed the Church and saith he they agree with the Adamites and Pharisees and Sadduces and with the Mannachies with the Jewes Turkes Servebus and with the Soscinians and many more which he names and saith we agree with them and this is to render us odious and as abominable as he can to men in Authority To all which I do answer what we do profess and practise for Religion we have not been learnt from man nor been taught it by men not our Gospel nor Religion but we have received it from the Lord and of him are we taught and by the spirit lead into all truth and though thou hast done as the Pharisees did they reckoned Christ with transgressors and crucified him betwixt two thieves so though thou hast compared us with such and such whom thou callest Hereticks and it is possible many of them might be so and so thou hast shewed the spirit of the Pharisees and of the murtherers that denyed Christ and we are known unto the Lord what we are though not unto mortal mans wisdom that perisheth And to whom shall we more truely compare the Ministers of England are they not like those which Isaiah cryed against that sought for their gain from their quarter that were greedy dumb dogs And like them that Ieremiah cryed against that said thus saith the Lord when the Lord had never spoken to them nor sent them and are not you all like them that Micah cryed against chap. 3. that Preached for hire and Divined for mony and that prepared war against those that would not put into their mouthes as you do at this day and are not you like them that Ezekiel cryed against that made a prey upon the flock and made merchandize of souls and fed themselves with the fat and did not feed the flock but ruled over them with force and cruelty And are you not like such as Christ cryed wo against that were called of men Master that went in long robes and love greeting in the markets and uppermost roomes at feasts for you act those things which Christ cryed wo against the Pharisees who did the same things And are not you like them that Paul spoke of that are headdy and high minded men and covetous and proud and went in the way of Baalam for gifts and rewards and that through coveteousness with fained words made Merchandize of souls And Are not you like them that Iohn saw was coming in in his dayes that went out from them and that went into the world that were of the world and spoke of the world and the world heard them and which the world went after And are not you of them that hath deceived the whole world that hath been of the Whore that causeth all Nations to drink her cup and of them that hath made war against the Saints and against the Lamb of that stock of the false Prophets that wrought miracles in the sight of the beast And the world wonders after the beast and the beast hath carried the Whore and he hath compelled and caused all to worship him and the Whore caused all to drink of the cup of her fornication are not these things so may not the witness of God in all mens consciences truely answer hereunto and condemn you to be such as were the false prophets and the hirelings and the deceivers against whom the Prophets Christ and the Apostles gave witness yea it is manifest that you are in the same way and of the same generation and that you follow the same spirit because you shew forth the same works and are not you like the Papist and the Jesuites was it not by the Authority of the Pope of Rome that your very way of making Ministers was ordained at Schools and Colledges and were it not the Papists and in their dayes that the general part of your Church Discipline and Government the call of your Ministers and practice of them and maintenance of them was it not first set up by the Papists was not this way of Tythes first established by the Church of Rome and do you not follow the Papists herein in receiving tythes Gleab Lands and Easter reckonings and Midsumer dues which you hold up and would destroy them that will not give you such things And therefore are not you like unto the Papists and Jesuites yea we know that the Church of England is but newly come out of the womb of Popery and hath the Symtomes thereof upon her at this very day in many things yea the Testimony of God in all people may witnes hereunto and so it is the very trick of the Whore to cry out against